BIG PINE KEY, Fla. — A Florida Keys man was arrested Wednesday after he opened his home to a group of federally protected Key deer, letting them roam inside, where he fed them and watched Fox News ...

If you patrol the Florida Keys behind a badge, your beat includes wildlife that call the islands home. When an endangered Key deer — which exist only in the Lower Keys — was in crisis Thursday ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- State and federal authorities are investigating the shooting of an endangered Key deer and are offering a $5,000 reward for information about the crime. Officials discovered the ...

Florida’s Key deer have withstood a great deal in their thousands of years in the Florida Keys: hurricanes, infections, parasites, habitat changes. In 2016, a ghastly flesh-eating worm infected the ...

A woman who was facing a year in federal prison for what local environmentalists said was the mercy killing of a suffering endangered Key deer in November instead was sentenced to a year of probation ...

MIAMI - Traveling through the lower Florida Keys it is hard to miss Big Pine Key. It is the largest of the lower Keys and is also home to the Key Deer. It's hard to miss the signs as you slowly drive ...

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. — A convicted felon from Big Pine Key is facing criminal charges after authorities said he lured multiple endangered Key deer into his home by feeding them — and posted photos and ...

A 77-year-old Florida Keys woman is accused of the shooting death of an endangered Key deer and could face a year in federal prison if she’s convicted. Wendy Kilheffer of Big Pine Key shot the animal ...

Key deer are the smallest subspecies of the white-tailed deer. The biggest bucks are less than 3 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh about 75 pounds. This subspecies of deer is only found in piney and ...

A wounded key deer walks through the woods of Big Pine Key on Nov. 9, 2022, with a rope entangled to its antlers. The animal was shot to death on Nov. 16, 2022. Save Our Key Deer A woman who was ...