Several Florida nonprofits, medical professionals, public health experts and families impacted by the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Everglades are calling for it to be shut down due to what they are calling inhumane conditions and environmental damage.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has already signed at least $245 million in state contracts to set up and run the new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades

Florida officials argue a lawsuit over the Everglades detention center was filed in the wrong court, as environmental groups seek to halt expansion.

A Central Florida man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his girlfriend's 13-year-old daughter, who went missing and was found dead months later.

The man who killed 13-year-old Madeline Soto will never be free again after a surprise plea deal was made Monday that will enable Stephan Sterns to avoid the death penalty. Sterns, the ex-boyfriend of Soto's mother,

A heat advisory for Florida's Treasure Coast is in effect from noon through 6 p.m., with heat index values from 109 to 112 possible.