A 400lb sea turtle rescued from a swimming pool at Rum Point is back in the ocean. Rescuers tagged her and released her the ...

Artificial light is often to blame for turtles straying far from home.

Officials in Martin County got a unique call for assistance on Monday.Martin County Fire Rescue said it responded to a call of a sea turtle swimming in a saltwater residential pool on Jupiter Island.

It’s impossible to know what Lourdes was thinking or feeling while waiting in the back of the conservation officers’ truck before her departure, but it was clear the small group of people gathered to ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...