Dry Tortugas National Park

As South Florida national parks reckon with staff layoffs from the White House, the latest visitor data shows attendance steadily rebounding and in some cases breaking records following the COVID-19 shutdown.

A new book Dry Tortugas: Stronghold of Nature from a native Florida Keys photographer captures beauty and change in one of the country's most remote National Parks.

Archeologists have found the remains of a 19th-century quarantine hospital and cemetery on a submerged island in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park in the Gulf of Mexico.

Five years after Hurricane Irma damaged Fort Jefferson, one of the park's most popular attractions, the National Park Service is moving foward with repairs.

Nonstop migrant landings in the Florida Keys has overwhelmed federal law enforcement agencies. But the county must deal with the boats left behind in an already fragile environment.

Over the weekend, 300 migrants arrived at the sparsely populated Dry Tortugas National Park. The park was closed so that law enforcement and medical personnel could evaluate the migrants before moving them to Key West.

For more than five years, a disease has been wiping out corals that provide the foundation for Florida's reef tract. Now it's reached the most remote and healthy area of the reef.

The Department of the Interior is one of the parts of the federal government affected by the current shutdown. But you can still visit South Florida's…

Cletus the crocodile may be lonely no more.The American crocodile that showed up at the Dry Tortugas in 2003 was captured and loaded onto a seaplane over…

Are you a South Floridian who's been meaning to explore the Everglades, ride a boat on Biscayne Bay or trek through Dry Tortugas... but just never gotten…

Seagrass in Florida Bay has died off rapidly over the past couple of years. About 40,000 acres have been lost, harming the habitat of animals from…

Filmmakers Carter McCormick and Paula Sprenger recently wrapped up a month as artists-in-residence at Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West. No phone, TV, Internet or other people.