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

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 ...

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

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a plan to build an immigrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades.

A string of portable generators and dump trucks loaded with fill dirt streamed into the site Thursday, according to activist ...

“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.

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

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

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

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of the ...