More than 1,300 wildfires have been reported in Florida so far this year, which have burned more than 57,000 acres of state and federal land, according to the Florida Forest Service website.

A wide stretch of central and southwestern Florida is under red flag warnings Friday ... making it dangerous to conduct any outdoor burning. Affected counties include both inland and coastal areas ...

but there are six county-enacted burn bans in central and southwest Florida, according to the Florida Forest Service’s burn ban map. Note that burning yard debris is always prohibited in Duval, Orange ...

County commissioners Tuesday will hear a staff presentation on its decades-long practice of adding fluoride to its drinking water.