Something unexpected is happening to the decades-old snowbird migration pattern. For generations, retirees packed up every winter and headed to Florida's sunny shores to escape the cold. Yet recently, ...

A Google Earth image of a snowbird facility in Mesa, Ariz. (Photo Provided) After graduating college in the 1980s I worked for a short period in Mesa, Ariz. When I arrived, my co-workers told me I was ...

A pair of Empire State snowbirds just learned it’s not easy to fly the coop. An upstate couple who relocated to Florida is still on the hook for a $60,000 New York tax bill because they didn’t prove ...

Flocks of the migratory sandhill crane fly thousands of miles back to the Great Lakes and Canada after spending the winter in North Central Florida’s wetlands, like Paynes Prairie in Alachua County.

With widespread wintry weather, early cold snaps, and heavy snowfall totals across the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, and New England this winter, the Sunbelt is prepared for this season’s snowbird ...

Canadian travel to Tampa Bay has decreased this year, mirroring a larger trend seen across the United States. But in Pinellas County, which for decades has benefited from the “snowbird” migration of ...

Every year when the weather gets chilly, America sees a mass migration of snowbirds. No, not real birds — these snowbirds are the more than one million Americans and Canadians (generally retirees) who ...

Join Sandra Viktorova and the WGCU News team for the latest episode of Southwest Florida In Focus. The great Florida migration is underway. Thousands of seasonal residents are beginning to pack their ...