An unusual search is underway in Lake Pontchartrain. The Audubon Aquarium is searching for a manatee that has been spotted a handful of times around the Mandeville shoreline in recent days.

After hitting record highs in recent years, Florida manatee deaths in 2024 were far below the five-year average. “That is a good sign," Tiare "TJ" Fridrich, a biologist with Save The Manatee Club, ...