The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend.

After aerial flights and physical searches, the Coast Guard says the little blobs of oil are no longer floating ashore.

A popular vacation destination closed its beaches after the discovery of mysterious tar balls on the shore, the origin of ...

The beach had to be evacuated this weekend after people began finding balls of a tar-like substance on the shore.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves ...

Palm Beach's chief lifeguard confirmed the tar balls were spotted along the town's Atlantic Ocean coastline. Their origin is ...

Several beaches across Broward County were closed on Saturday after reports of tar bar washed on shore, officials said.

Boynton Beach Fire Rescue responded to reports of oil on its beach Saturday morning. They found tar balls from the inlet south to Oceanfront Park. As a precaution, beaches in Fort Lauderdale were ...

It was a beautiful day on Fort Lauderdale Beach, until a strange substance cut it short.Swimmers were forced out of<a ...

At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews ...

Most of Fort Lauderdale’s beach was shut down to swimmers during a busy beach day Saturday due to oil washing ashore.