Florida officials have forged ahead over the past week in constructing the compound dubbed as “Alligator Alcatraz” within the ...

A lawsuit challenges the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center near the Everglades, while Gov. DeSantis defends the $450 ...

Hundreds of people lined a Florida Everglades highway Saturday to protest the construction of an immigrant detention center ...

Hundreds protest Florida's new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," as Gov. DeSantis says it will open Tuesday.

The speed by which the state is building the detention camp has unnerved environmentalists as well as local and state elected ...

Environmentalists are suing to stop the opening of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility that will hold up to 3,000 detainees in Florida’s Everglades. A pet project ...

Hundreds protest Florida's ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant detention center in the Everglades, citing ecological damage, tribal ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Friday, June 27, 2025, a boater safety law named for Luciana Fernandez, a 17-year-old Miami-Dade County girl who was killed in a Sept. 4, 2022, vessel crash ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, an ally of President Donald Trump, boasted this week in a social media video that ...

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Friday to prevent the federal government from opening a migrant detention center at an airstrip Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. The ...

Nearly three years ago, when Hurricane Ian destroyed a bridge in southwest Florida and left residents on a barrier island with scant access to drinking water and food, Gov. Ron DeSantis leveraged his ...