The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend. So far, the ...

Most of Fort Lauderdale’s beach was shut down to swimmers during a busy beach day Saturday due to oil washing ashore.

Fort Lauderdale beach reopened to swimmers Sunday after an oily substance washed ashore. The U.S. Coast Guard is still ...

A sticky, black substance that washed ashore Saturday prompted officials to close a stretch of Fort Lauderdale Beach as crews ...

Mysterious tar balls washed up on several Florida beaches, forcing closures and triggering an investigation by the U.S. Coast ...

After aerial flights and physical searches, the Coast Guard says the little blobs of oil are no longer floating ashore.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue received 911 calls around 9 a.m. for an oil spotting on the beach near Las Olas Boulevard. The caller noticed his foot had oil on it after walking on the sand, FLFR said.

The spring break tradition in Florida stretches back to the early 1960s, when the movie “Where the Boys Are” put Fort ...

Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue announced that the oily substance on the beach prompted lifeguards to tell beachgoers to stay out ...

Several beaches across Broward County were closed on Saturday after reports of tar bar washed on shore, officials said.

If Miami and Palm Beach had a love child, it would be Fort Lauderdale. Quickly shedding its image as just a spring break ...

At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews completed searches from Palm beach to Port Everglades for the source of the ...