At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Boating under the influence causing manslaughter now carries a four-year prison sentence minimum under the legislation kinown ...

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

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon change how Floridians petition for amendments to the state constitution ...

Florida is moving to open an immigration detention center in the Everglades as soon as Tuesday. Environmental groups are ...

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.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Friday that a new migrant detention center located deep in the Everglades will begin housing detainees as early as Tuesday.