America’s largest blackwater swamp is home to more than 10,000 gators and the only gold-tier International Dark Sky Park in ...

It's Day 3 of our kayak camping trip across the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and we're in the Suwanee River, which is ...

FOLKSTON, Ga. — Between its size and preservation, there isn’t another place quite like it on earth. It’s located not much more than an hour drive from most of Jacksonville. And yet despite that ...

To David Walter Banks, there’s something special about the Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America. There’s a mystical quality, the photographer says, that’s hard to explain to ...

FOLKSTON, Ga. (WSAV) – A major environmental proposal has been introduced that could have lasting impacts on Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The proposal could provide a new layer of protection ...

FILE - The sun sets on the lily pads and floating vegetation in the Chesser Prairie inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on March 30, 2022, in Folkston, Ga ...

Sometimes nicknamed “garbage bears” because of their proclivity to rummage through trash, black bears in Georgia are ...

GEORGIA — As the year comes to a close, and a new presidential administration is set to lead Washington in January, there’s a final push to prevent a titanium mining project from getting closer to ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A company that has spent years battling conservationists as it seeks a permit to mine outside the Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge needs to do just one ...