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.

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

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

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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 ...

LAUDERDALE-BY-THE-SEA - Oily tar balls have been washing up along South Florida beaches, stretching from Fort Lauderdale to Lake Worth Beach in Palm Beach County, raising environmental concerns and ...

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

The beach had to be evacuated this weekend after people began finding balls of a tar-like substance on the shore.