In the center of the state, south of Lake Okeechobee, a sign welcoming visitors to Belle Glade, Florida says it all: “Her soil is her fortune.” Belle Glade and the surrounding cities of Pahokee and ...

Citing federal civil rights law, the Sierra Club and its Glades-based Stop the Burn campaign are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires ...

A screening of the Emmy-nominated film "Bittersweet Muck" about sugarcane burning in the Glades will be shown May 31 at the Mandel Library. The film, produced by NBC 6 investigative reporter Sasha ...

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

Louisiana's agriculture commissioner is asking growers not to burn sugar cane fields until further notice. Mike Strain warns the smoke can mingle with dense fog, which is forecast across Southeast ...

The burning of sugar cane fields in West Baton Rouge Parish started sending ashes into the air and across the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge this week, a phenomenon seen several times since the fall ...

Each year, large swaths of Louisiana are engulfed in toxic smoke from post-harvest sugar cane burning. Communities suffer in silence while state leadership looks the other way. Gov. Jeff Landry’s ...

PAINCOURTVILLE, La. - Drought conditions have not improved, but the state is easing off the burn ban. It's coming just in time for one of the state's largest crops, sugar cane. There are more than 500 ...

We have all seen it. That enormous thick cloud looming over the sugar cane fields. It fills the lush beautiful land with a disturbing haze as it hovers over our homes and hearts. That toxic cloud is ...