The sticky, gooey mess is beginning to clear up along Palm Beach’s Atlantic Ocean coastline, town officials said.

Mysterious tar balls washed up on several Florida beaches, forcing closures and triggering an investigation by the U.S. Coast ...

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

South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves stepping in dark, greasy balls of oil, possibly ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating after tar balls were seen washed up on southeast Florida beaches. The substances were ...

When we first came down here, there was like weird, black globs on the beach … I thought it was a sea creature or something,” one man said.

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

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

At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews completed searches from Palm beach to Port Everglades for the source of the ...

It was beautiful weather for the beach this weekend, but beachgoers found themselves in a sticky situation. The US Coast ...

But beachgoers faced a viscous mess that started Saturday: Tar balls, accumulations of a sticky black material, dotting the coast. The U.S. Coast Guard reported the tar balls in a post on X ...