Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades – an area of wetlands in the south of the state. Because ...

Senate Minority Leader Lori Berman will hold a press conference on Friday, airing questions the minority caucus holds about ...

Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Indian Tribe are protesting a new ICE detention center being built in the Florida ...

Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...

However, the big story in local politics this week was the stunning victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral ...

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the temporary detention center being constructed at an isolated Everglades airfield will ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is catchy branding but a misnomer. Unlike the former maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in San ...

News and The News-Press have a reporter and photographer on site today to talk to protesters and follow the progress of the prison.

Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s ...

WASHINGTON—Picking up on a statement issued by Chairwoman Nikki Fried, Florida Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday slammed the ...

On Sunday, Friends of the Everglades held a protest against the plan at the abandoned Everglades Jetport in the Big Cypress ...