A federal appeals court rejected a constitutional challenge by a Monroe County commercial fisherman to Florida rules about ...

TALLAHASSEE — After President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf America, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis jumped on the idea. In an order he issued ...

Satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. More than half of Florida's coast borders the Gulf of Mexico, a partially landlocked body of water between the United States and Mexico ...

By 1895, Florida’s sea sponge industry accounted for a third of the state’s annual marine revenue, according to architectural historian John Sledge, who wrote “The Gulf of Mexico ...

Could President-elect Donald Trump change the name of the Gulf of Mexico? In a news conference at his Florida home at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said he wanted to change the name of the Gulf "pretty soon." ...