At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews ...

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

Ocean Rescue lifeguards are telling people to avoid the water from Riomar Street south to the Port Everglades inlet.

It was a beautiful day on Fort Lauderdale Beach, until a strange substance cut it short.Swimmers were forced out of<a ...

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

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

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves ...

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.

Boynton Beach Fire Rescue responded to reports of oil on its beach Saturday morning. They found tar balls from the inlet south to Oceanfront Park. As a precaution, beaches in Fort Lauderdale were ...

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

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