Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

It's beach season in Florida: Some people surf, tan, build sand castles ... But if you're in the Treasure Coast, it's a great opportunity to seek buried treasure. You may have seen people with metal ...

Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

A person walks the beach with a metal detector near the Ambersands Beach Access on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, a day after Hurricane Ian impacted the Treasure Coast with strong winds, rain and beach ...

Local metal detector operator Moye Howard poses for a photo with Amber Davis after finding her lost wedding ring on Folly Field Beach in late June. Davis, a Hilton Head resident, connected with Howard ...

Students taking summer classes at John I. Leonard High School in Greenacres became some of the first students in the county to test freestanding metal detectors. It took about two minutes for 40 ...