The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”.

The migrant detention center going up with warp speed in the Florida Everglades is set to open this week.

Environmental activists rallied Saturday near the Dade-Collier airport to protest construction of a state-run immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, a project critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades.

Florida’s familiar logistics of temporary mass housing is well underway at an old air strip in the Florida Everglades, with mass migrant detention the goal.

In a demonstration meant for an aerial view, a group of migrant detainees stood in an “SOS” formation on Thursday in western Miami-Dade County, near the Florida Everglades.

In a demonstration meant for an aerial view, a group of migrant detainees stood in an “SOS” formation on Thursday in western Miami-Dade County, near the Florida Everglades.

For centuries, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has called the Everglades home. But decades of engineering projects have devastated their ancestral lands and an ecosystem that’s sustained them.

An investigation was underway on Saturday after at least 16 people were injured when two airboats collided Friday in the Everglades Naples–Marco Island area.

There's a new twist in a growing mystery in the Florida Everglades.

In the dead of night, hunters go deep into the Florida Everglades, searching for the invasive Burmese pythons that are eating up mice, rabbits and other prey.

Burmese Pythons are slithering all over the Everglades, but beginning on Friday, Aug. 9, adventurous Floridians can start removing them from the Florida Everglades.

Burmese Pythons are slithering all over the Everglades, but beginning on Aug. 9, adventurous Floridians can start removing them from the Florida Everglades.

Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez is holding a press conference in Miami-Dade County on Thursday morning.

A man stands accused of operating an airboat without a license when it flipped on its side with 10 passengers on Friday in the Florida Everglades.

Officials say a 68-year-old man fell off a sailboat in the Florida Everglades and was bitten by a crocodile while trying to swim to shore.

Jacob Taylor was working in the Florida Everglades. The journeyman lineman was up over 100 feet when the crane he was on collapsed, and he fell into a marsh area. It took a big group of Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue heroes to rescue him on Jan. 22, near U.S. Highway 27.

New details have emerged after two men were killed Wednesday when their plane crashed in the Florida Everglades near Alligator Alley.

Broward County rescue crews located a small plane Wednesday that had crashed in the Florida Everglades near Alligator Alley and found two people dead in the wreckage.

Authorities responded to reports of a boat crash in the Everglades Wednesday evening.

Medics airlifted two victims to a local hospital after two pickup trucks crashed on the Tamiami Trail in far west Miami-Dade late Friday afternoon, according to fire officials.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told Local 10 News Thursday that they have opened two flood gates due to excessive rain and flooding in the Everglades.

A small plane crashed into the Florida Everglades in far southwestern Broward County Tuesday morning.

Unwanted guests are slithering all over the Everglades, but beginning Friday, adventurous Floridians can start handing them eviction notices.

One of the most famous python hunters of them all in the Florida Everglades made a catch of a lifetime.

Registration opened Wednesday for the 2023 Florida Python Challenge.

It was nighttime in a remote area in western Broward County. A man and a woman were stars gazing near a ramp for airboats when suddenly a 66-year-old man crawled out of the alligator and snake-infested water and told them that he wasn’t clear on how he had ended up there, court records show.

Earth Day marked two years since Local 10 News launched Don't Trash Our Treasure, and ever since it debuted, it continues to showcase South Floridians who are out there in the community, trying to make a difference with innovations and advocacy to restore balance to our natural world.

Recently, our Local 10 Eco Hero team ventured into wild Florida, and that's where our Eco Hero winner, 13-year-old Sienna Robertson, met a unique South Florida man with a passion for the Florida Everglades.

Wednesday is World Water Day, a day that highlights the importance of fresh water and the sustainable management of fresh water resources.

Exactly fifty years ago, Eastern Airlines Flight 401 mysteriously slammed into the Florida Everglades at over 200 miles per hour.

We're celebrating the 75th anniversary of Everglades National Park.

People from all over the world are flocking to South Florida this weekend for Art Basel, but one local photographer made his own masterpiece on the edge of the Everglades.

A Soviet-era Cuban biplane crashed on Monday in the Florida Everglades, about 15 miles west of the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport. There were two survivors.

A python's last big meal in the Florida Everglades turned out to be quite the feast.

The 2022 Florida Python Challenge names its winners as the competition comes to a close.

More than 800 competitors will be trudging through the Florida Everglades for the next eight days, in search of invasive Burmese pythons that will bring in thousands of dollars in prize money.

Commissioners postponed a controversial vote on Miami-Dade County’s Urban Development Boundary, a limit on construction projects near nature reserves.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio accused Democrats in the federal government of not prioritizing Florida Everglades restoration projects.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed work on a $339 million Everglades restoration project aimed at cleansing water runoff before it flows into a troubled Florida river.

Rosa Sordo wants residents of western Broward County to beware of lurking predators and take additional measures to protect their children and pets.

The parents of a 1-year-old boy who drowned in the Florida Everglades after a car wreck have been arrested.

Six people removed an extremely large Burmese Python from the Everglades Saturday night.

The 2021 Python Challenge kicks off Friday, and is part of an effort to remove invasive Burmese pythons from Florida’s ecosystem.

Jose Ecarri says he and his pilot friend were flying from Tamiami to Arcadia to grab some tacos on Tuesday when the engine of their small plane failed and they landed in a remote area of the Florida Everglades — miraculously unscathed.

Professional python hunters and amateurs alike can win prizes in Florida’s annual hunt for the Burmese pythons that are ravaging the state’s native species.

Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference Thursday morning in the Everglades to kick off the start of registration for the 2021 Python Challenge.

Smoke from a wildfire prompted authorities to close Card Sound Road in both directions on Monday in Miami-Dade County.

Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. She is now a general assignment reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the senior legislative correspondent for a United States senator on Capitol Hill.

EVERGLADES, Fla. – A python hunter and a researcher believe the help in the fight against COVID-19 is hiding in the Florida Everglades. Dustin Crum and Daryl Thompson, a researcher, and entrepreneur with Global Research and Discovery Group out of Winter Haven, said the invasive Burmese python contains squalene, a compound that’s commonly used in vaccines. That’s enough to make about 3,500 vaccinations.”“We have a lot of snakes in the Everglades,” Crum said. Currently, the compound is not on the Food and Drug Administration’s list of ingredients in the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines. I also agree that pythons in the everglades are a major problem.

Conservationist and python hunter Mike Kimmel, also known as Python Cowboy to his Instagram followers, bagged an enormous female python measuring more than 17 feet long and weighing about 150 lbs. Kimmel, a contractor with the South Florida Water Management District, said he caught the snake in an Everglades spoil island in the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area earlier in the week. According to Mike Kirkland, an invasive animal biologist, the South Florida Water Management Districts python elimination program has removed 2,970 pythons to date. FWCs record python is 18 feet. It was a big win for Florida conservation! he wrote on Instagram.

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday the state has reached a deal to purchase 20,000 acres of land in the Florida Everglades that is currently slated for oil production. “We’ll permanently save the land from oil production,” DeSantis said during an announcement at Everglades Holiday Park. The land, which is part of the Everglades Protection Area in Broward County, is home to more than 60 endangered and threatened species, including the wood stork. DeSantis said the state has secured an option agreement with Kanter Real Estate LLC, which had obtained approval for exploratory oil wells in the Everglades, to move forward on the purchase in the next 75 days. The price tag for the land is $16.56 million, with an option price up to $18 million.

You've probably seen photographer Clyde Butcher's dramatic photos of the Florida Everglades. He has been instrumental in raising awareness about that unique environment and is an unwavering advocate... Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.

FFS EvergladesFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Officials briefly closed westbound lanes of Alligator Alley on Tuesday due to smoke from the wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades in western Broward County. The lanes were closed for nearly 25 minutes before a light rain fell in the area and cleared away most of the smoke. The Florida Forest Service said Tuesday the blaze had grown to 33,500 acres and is now 40 percent contained. The wildfire is located about 8 miles west of the city of Weston. Florida Forest Service officials confirmed lightning started the wildfire Sunday night just north of a busy stretch of Interstate 75 and a few miles west of Highway 27.

The encampment near the intersection of Northwest 71st Street and 32nd Avenue had some 300 registered sex offenders. "Miami-Dade County should be embarrassed because of what these people are living like," said Steve Grafton, owner of Grafton Furniture. Registered sex offenders, whose victims were younger than 16, are required to live away from schools and day cares. Workers from Miami-Dade's Homeless Trust arrived Sunday night with police to give the offenders their eighth and final warning. "We're not going to let another encampment like this grow -- it's just not productive," said Ron Book, with Miami-Dade Homeless Trust.