Shelby Stites and her daughter were on Sanibel Island Saturday when they spotted a very large alligator. Cops were able to carefully wrangle it until trappers arrived and had it relocated.

More: Massive Florida alligator snags ... on Fort Myers News-Press: Lazy gator: Alligator floats the day away in the Ding Darling Bailey Tract on Sanibel Island ...

A patchy red tide bloom has affected the Sarasota and Manatee county area over the past wee. Local experts confirmed that red tide is present along the Sarasota and Manatee County coast, but spotty ...

The two remedies to red tide were developed under the $18 million Red Tide Mitigation Technology Initiative. Next: a pivot to ...