A 150-year-old beacon that helped guide ships through the treacherous Florida Keys coral reefs before GPS, sonar and other technology made it obsolete is shining again as part of a national effort to ...

From Carysfort Reef off Key Largo to Sand Key in the Lower Keys, the future of five of the six lighthouses that once kept ships from crashing into the Florida Keys’ coral reef is uncertain. The U.S.

Alligator Reef Lighthouse is named after the USS Alligator, a U.S. Navy schooner that ran aground on the reef in 1822 and sank, and five other aging lighthouses off the Keys were important maritime ...

ISLAMORADA (CBSMiami/FKNB) - The iconic Alligator Reef Lighthouse, an almost 150-year-beacon that kept maritime traffic clear of perilous coral reefs off the Florida Keys, is to be acquired by an ...

MIAMI – A group of migrants who fled Cuba in a homemade boat and climbed onto a lighthouse off the Florida Keys want to be allowed to stay in the United States. Under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, ...

ISLAMORADA, Fla. (CBSMiami) — A 52-year-old artist from the Keys just finished an eight-mile swim. Larry Herlth wasn't trying to set any records, just raise awareness for preserving aging lighthouses ...

About 20 Cuban migrants are clinging to the a lighthouse in the water about 20 miles from Key West. U.S. Coast Guard officials are trying to talk the migrants into coming down from the lighthouse, the ...

ISLAMORADA, Fla. (AP) — A 150-year-old beacon that helped guide ships through the treacherous Florida Keys coral reefs before GPS, sonar and other technology made it obsolete is shining again as part ...