Before the age of theme parks and endless dining chains, one Clearwater spot defined a unique brand of Florida opulence: the ...

DAVIE — The overgrown lawn and tall weeds, the cracked stone columns and dirty, red tile roof all announced that the Kapok Tree restaurant many had loved was no more. Some came to buy a piece of their ...

Two 80-year-old kapok trees in Boynton Beach each hold history and cherish city memories, but one faces an inevitable demise at the expense of the Town Square project. Both kapok trees were planted in ...

Room 100 was crawling with critters as parents, teachers and students filed in to learn the fate of The Great Kapok Tree. The cardboard tree was the center of a play that marked the end of the ...

A bankruptcy judge refused Wednesday to protect the Kapok Tree restaurant from its creditors any longer. Earlier this year, Judge Thomas Baynes dismissed the case from bankruptcy court after three ...

Q. I was alerted to an article you wrote in 2004 about killing off cottonwood and elm tree root shoots or sprouts. I am building a new house in Sarasota, Florida, and had to remove a 50-plus year old ...

Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South ...

DAYTONA BEACH — The nearly 18,000-square-foot Fysh Bar & Grill under construction at Port Orange Riverwalk will be the largest restaurant in Volusia County when it opens early next year. But there was ...

Putting on gray work gloves and yellow helmets, students from local elementary schools Thursday morning helped celebrate Florida Arbor Day by planting a kapok tree at Phipps Ocean Park in Palm Beach. ...

A prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok—the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok ...

Celebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South ...