The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC) 2019-2020 High School Fishing Program offers high school fishing clubs or teams the opportunity to apply for the Florida Sport Fish Restoration R3 Fishing Grant. This grant program is focused on recruiting new anglers, retaining active anglers and reactivating lapsed anglers to ensure the future of fishing […]
DORIAN BECOMES THE STRONGEST HURRICANE IN MODERN RECORDS FOR THE NORTHWESTERN BAHAMAS. …CATASTROPHIC CONDITIONS OCCURRING IN THE ABACOS ISLANDS** NEW INFORMATION ————— Tropical storm watch – A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for Highlands and Polk Flood Advisory A flood advisory has been issued for parts of Citrus County Storm information: – About 300 […]
[Courtesy of the NHC] Hurricane Dorian is now a catastrophic category 5 hurricane. As of 11 a.m. EDT Sunday, Dorian was located about 205 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida; 20 miles east of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas; packing winds of 180 mph with higher gusts and was moving west at 7 […]
Tallahassee, Fla. – To assist families as they prepare for Hurricane Dorian, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) has been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to release September food assistance benefits to all 67 counties included in Governor Ron DeSantis’ Executive Order 19-190 declaring a State of Emergency. Supplemental […]
In this video, our partners at AccuWeather shared how the NOAA helps determine the path and strength of a hurricane. Hurricane Dorian is wide and slow-moving. Mother nature is unpredictable, and with the path of the hurricane changing by the minute, there is a huge cone of uncertainty, the NOAA said. Even though the storm […]
The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers; Withlacoochee At Holder. According to the NWS, recent rainfall atop saturated soils due to rainfall over the past several weeks has resulted in the Withlacoochee River at Holder to rise into flood stage. Levels will continue to be monitored for any impacts from […]
With so much rain and rising water comes Florida nature. Imagine finding a cottonmouth, a.k.a water moccasin, a.k.a viper, right outside the door of your home. Well, on Tuesday, that is exactly what happened to one woman and her little boy. At first, her little boy thought it was a black snake. However, when the […]
Shortly after 9 p.m., Wednesday, August 21, 2019, Citrus County Sheriff Mike Prendergast was involved in a vehicle crash in Hernando County. Sheriff Prendergast was traveling north on U.S. Highway 19 in his agency vehicle returning home from a board meeting with the Sheriff’s Ranches Enterprises, Inc. “While traveling north on US Hwy 19 just […]
A mother, over Facebook, started a rumor that a student had not been suspended from school after making threats. The mom claimed that a student had threated to shoot up Inverness Primary School and that, officials ignored the situation. The mother got everyone on the Facebook post in an uproar and caused many to feel […]
Inverness — Shortly before 3:00 p.m., Thursday, Citrus County Sheriff’s Office detectives and K9 deputies responded to the Family Dollar, located off of US HWY 41, Inverness, in reference to a robbery. The suspect, a white male, is suspected of another robbery that occurred in Citrus County on May 13, 2019, at the Reliance gas station […]