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 ...

A fresh round of infighting erupted among Democratic officials, donors, and political operatives on Wednesday, a day after ...

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

Republicans in Florida, backing President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, have begun plans for construction on a new ...

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 ...

Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s ...

Florida began construction this week on a detention center surrounded by fierce reptiles and cypress swamps, an "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades wetlands, as part of US President Donald Trump's ...

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