An Indiana man is facing charges in South Florida after police accused him of molesting a teenage girl on a Carnival cruise.

Passengers aboard the Carnival Cruise Line ship Venezia were in for a surprise when it was discovered that the idyllic voyage had turned into a scene of alleged criminal activity.

A Texas woman is now banned from stepping onboard any Carnival cruise ship for life all because she tried to bring CBD gummies on board to help her sleep.

Four cruise passengers hailing from Tennessee and Georgia didn’t have much to celebrate after the Carnival Celebration returned to PortMiami Sunday; police say they all spent big on the seven-day trip using fraudulent credit cards.

As you get ready for summer vacation, there’s a new security team you might encounter at Florida ports if you’re planning on taking a cruise.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due to new COVID-19 cases aboard.

The Carnival Freedom, which left on an 8-day trip Saturday, had stops in Bonaire and Aruba canceled. The line said it would instead make a stop at Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic on Friday before returning to Port Miami on Sunday.

Carnival Cruise Line has added more ships to their schedule, set to sail through Spring 2022.

Cruise companies are adapting to a changing landscape amid a rise in COVID-19 cases that is threatening to dampen the industry’s comeback.

A Carnival cruise on which 27 people tested positive for COVID-19 just before the ship made a stop in Belize City this week is headed back to Galveston, Texas.

Carnival Cruise Line changed course on Thursday, and said it would require all passengers to wear masks on board, despite their vaccination status.

Customers and employees of several Carnival Corp. cruise lines might have had personal information stolen.

On Monday, Carnival confirmed that guest operations would resume at Port of Galveston, starting July 3 with Carnival Vista.

A 28-year-old woman who officers accused of pretending to be a high school student to promote her Instagram account at a Miami-Dade County public school was released on bond Wednesday.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg are joined by Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Broward County Mayor Steve Geller.

At Port Miami on Friday, an array of bipartisan elected officials, cruise line executives and union leaders gathered to speak with one voice about the need to start cruising again.

MIAMI – Carnival Cruise Line says it’s canceling its remaining cruises scheduled for November out of two Florida ports, as well as five cruises from Australia at the beginning of next year. The cruise line had previously announced it was canceling for the rest of the year all U.S. cruises except for trips out of Port Miami and Port Canaveral in Central Florida. But Monday’s announcement nixed trips in November on the six ships operating out of the two Florida ports. The cruise line says it is also notifying guests that five cruises on Carnival Splendor out of Sydney, Australia, next January and February have been canceled.

FILE - In this April 4, 2020 file photo, workers perform maintenance on the Carnival cruise line ship Carnival Magic while it is docked at Port Canaveral, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Carnival Cruise Line is canceling most U.S. sailings through the end of this year. The company said Thursday it is canceling sailings from all ports except its home ports of Miami and Port Canaveral, Florida. The CDC said it knows of 3,689 reported coronavirus cases and 41 deaths linked to cruises in U.S. waters between March and September. Carnival rival Norwegian Cruise Line said Thursday that it hasn’t canceled any scheduled cruises and remains optimistic it can resume U.S. operations soon. Norwegian is listing November cruises from Florida to the Bahamas and New York to Bermuda on its website.

Thirteen passengers and one crew member will be taken to Broward Health Medical Center for treatment, while 26 passengers will be staying on board to be quarantined for 14 days. The ship will not remain at the port for that entire time, officials say, but crew will be staying on board. Of the 1,211 passengers deemed fit for travel, most will be taken to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to board chartered flights back home on Friday, said Port Everglades’ Alinda Montfort. We’re thankful to the people of Broward County,” Rick de Pinho, of New Jersey, said. De Pinho and his wife were on a two week South American voyage on the Zaandam ship when the new coronavirus began spreading on their ship.

The ships can’t dock at Port Everglades or even enter U.S. waters until unified command approves the cruise line’s entry plan, which has to include measures to keep the passengers away from the general population in Broward County. Unified command is made up of members from the U.S. Coast Guard and Florida Department of Health. We have over 300 U.S. citizens, fellow Americans, on the ships,” Broward County Mayor Dale Holness said. Both vessels are on their way to Port Everglades, but on Tuesday unified command rejected Carnival’s entry plan. Holness said meetings regarding the ships plans are ongoing, with Carnival and unified command sending documents back and forth and working to solidify an entry plan by Thursday.

COZUMEL, Mexico – Two Carnival cruise ships collided while docking in a Cozumel port, video shows. As the Carnival Glory cruise ship was maneuvering to dock, its rear struck the front of the Carnival Legend while it also waited to dock. Two Carnival Cruise Line passenger ships collided with people aboard while at port in Cozumel. The ships seaworthiness was not impacted while Carnival personnel assess the entirety of the damage, Stromfeld said. Guests were allowed to disembark the ship to spend the day at the port as planned, Stromfeld said.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(CNN) - Vacationers headed to Florida for the Labor Day holiday and the unofficial close of summer are in for a nerve-racking weekend. Getting out of the storm's path will be tricky, as its path is still unpredictable with four days to meander over very warm water. FlightsAmerican Airlines has issued a comprehensive list of Florida destinations that may be affected by the storm. The carriers have posted those details on their web sites and will update with new destinations as the storm's path evolves. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, one of Central Florida's most popular tourist destinations, is monitoring the storm's path and may move its Mobile Launch Platform inside.

Jose Medina/TwitterMIAMI - The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a crew member who fell off a Carnival cruise ship. A statement from Carnival Cruise Line said a crew member on the Carnival Victory "was witnessed going overboard" while the ship was returning to Miami. The Coast Guard said the 37-year-old man fell overboard about 30 miles northwest of Cuba. A Coast Guard cutter and airplane are searching for the man. The Carnival Victory was returning to Miami from a four-day Caribbean cruise.