BLUE CYPRESS LAKE — "There's the tag; I see it," Donna Halleran shouts above the purr of a Honda outboard engine. I don't see anything except a gnarled cypress tree with a massive clump of sticks and ...

The Florida Department of Health in Indian River has issued a health alert for the presence of harmful blue-green algal toxins in the center of Blue Cypress Lake. A sample collected Feb. 27 had 0.25 ...

While Florida has spoiled multitudes of lakes, Blue Cypress has been widely revered as an icon of natural enchantment, ringed by swamp trees, patrolled by ospreys and secluded seemingly from pollution ...

Bald cypress trees usually draw extra attention during this time of year because their needles are changing colors and dropping to the ground like the leaves of many broadleaf trees. Since most ...

We have a bald cypress tree, and we were wondering if the needles from the cypress tree we are raking up now would be good for mulching. We know oak leaves are a good mulch, but are maple leaves also ...

Many years ago, the late former Mayor Al Brafford told me that one of his favorite times of year in Hope Mills is fall. When I asked him why, he said it was because the bald cypress trees that circle ...