When Eve Samples became executive director of Friends of the Everglades in early 2020, she wasn’t new to the fight. For years, she had reported on Florida’s environmental struggles from the newsroom, ...

One month after President Donald Trump toured "Alligator Alcatraz" and the first inmates arrived, WLRN has compiled a ...

Tom Van Lent is accused of stealing “trade secrets” from the influential Everglades Foundation. He says the foundation has ...

"The Tribe remains committed to ensuring its traditional lands are not used as a detention facility," the tribe said in a statement.

Although lawmakers see the new detention center in the Everglades as a temporary fix, this can quickly turn into a human and environmental disaster.

Environmental issues are a significant part of the debate as well; organizations like the Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Everglades filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the ...

On Tuesday, DeSantis cut the ribbon at Hendry County’s newly completed C-43 reservoir, a $500 million project capable of ...

The sugar cane industry is trying to fast-track an open-pit mine that could devastate habitat-restoration efforts south of ...

The “dangerous and unlawful conditions” inside the state-managed immigration detention camp in the Everglades pose serious ...

The lawsuit alleges that officials failed to comply with a federal law requiring an environmental impact study.

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” now being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades. There ...

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