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Beachgoers were back on the sand after a mysterious find earlier this weekend.Thick, oily tar balls washed ashore on Fort<a ...

Fort Lauderdale beach reopened to swimmers Sunday after an oily substance washed ashore. The U.S. Coast Guard is still working to determine the source of the substance but it's suspected that it could ...

When we first came down here, there was like weird, black globs on the beach … I thought it was a sea creature or something,” one man said.

Image via Shutterstock A major beach in Florida got shut down. Actually, several beaches ended up closing on Saturday after ...

Fort Lauderdale Beach in Florida had to be evacuated this weekend after people began finding balls of a tar-like substance on the shore.

Palm Beach's chief lifeguard confirmed the tar balls were spotted along the town's Atlantic Ocean coastline. Their origin is ...

Several Broward County beaches in Florida, from Port Everglades in Miami to Palm Beach, were closed for a time this past ...

A sticky, black substance that washed ashore prompted officials to close a stretch of Fort Lauderdale Beach on Saturday morning as crews worked to determine its source.

Many people bring these onboard, but they can't be used.

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St. Lucie River now.