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

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 ...

There’s something in the water — and in the gators. A University of Georgia ecotoxicology study found there may be elevated levels of mercury in Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp. The alligators were from ...

There's July 4th, Pride Month, and Juneteenth, but there's one more summer tradition you may not know about. There are plenty of alligators in south Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. They tend to be ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling over ...