Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump have dismissed worries for the ecosystem. During a June 27 Boca Raton press conference, DeSantis told NBC 6 South Florida politics reporter Hatzel Vela ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing back on a new lawsuit filed this week by Florida Democrats related to the recent opening and ...

The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently ...

Fundraising for Florida Republicans has spiked as the Everglades-based detention facility for undocumented immigrants — which ...

A group of Democratic Florida lawmakers is petitioning the state Supreme Court to compel Gov. Ron DeSantis to allow them unannounced access to a newly established immigrant detention facility in the ...

Trump’s Everglades Prison Can’t Even Withstand a Routine Rainstorm. Ron DeSantis Wants to Open It Anyway.

"You literally have the president coming down tomorrow to tout what Florida has done," Gov. Ron DeSantis said of the ...

A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades.

"The devil is in the details, and we have zero details," said Eve Samples, executive director of the Stuart-based Friends of ...

Floridians, rejoice: there are updates to be shared as Governor DeSantis plans to restore parts of the Florida Everglades.

Republican states are considering building versions of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention facility for illegal ...

A group of Democratic Florida lawmakers is petitioning the state Supreme Court to compel Gov. Ron DeSantis to allow them unannounced access to a newly established immigrant detention facility in the ...