Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sugar-cane field burns outside of Pahokee. Is Palm Beach County's public health agency abdicating its responsibility when it ...

Citing federal civil rights law, the Sierra Club and its Glades-based Stop the Burn campaign are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

As members of the Physicians for Social Responsibility Florida Chapter, we, a collective of medical professionals, earnestly call upon the Palm Beach County Department of Health to address the urgent ...

PAINCOURTVILLE, La. - Drought conditions have not improved, but the state is easing off the burn ban. It's coming just in time for one of the state's largest crops, sugar cane. There are more than 500 ...

Ja’Morius Mitchell, 18, was reported missing near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later found dead in a burning sugar cane field, deputies said. Screengrab from the Plaquemine Police Department's Facebook ...

Louisiana's agriculture commissioner is asking growers not to burn sugar cane fields until further notice. Mike Strain warns the smoke can mingle with dense fog, which is forecast across Southeast ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOUISIANA (KLFY) — To the untrained eye, a ...