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Another powerful group has petitioned to join a federal lawsuit to shut down the Everglades migrant detention camp known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” given that the state has given no end date, and no assurances that this will not become a permanent facility.
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday appointed state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia as Florida’s new chief financial officer, elevating the conservative lawmaker to a powerful cabinet post that oversees state finances, insurance regulation and emergency response operations.
Just days after lawmakers toured Alligator Alcatraz for the first time, Local 10 News is working to uncover who exactly is being detained at the facility.
Florida Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wore a University of Florida golf polo with an alligator icon to a guided tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday in Collier County.
Andrew Closson was among the civilians standing outside the Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday afternoon in Collier County.
Local 10 News heard from Florida lawmakers Friday who are suing the state for access to the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility, just hours before they join fellow Democrats and Republicans on a tour of the controversial center.
South Florida lawmakers are demanding answers about what’s happening inside a controversial migrant detention site some have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” as concerns mount over the treatment of hundreds being held at the remote Everglades Detention Center.
Roughly 600 people are currently being detained at the migrant detention facility in South Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” authorities told Local 10 News Wednesday.
Newly-released aerial photos taken over the remote airport site of the state-built migrant detention facility “Alligator Alcatraz” led environmental groups to question whether it contradicted officials’ claims that no new construction would be done at the site.
As the first wave of migrant detainees prepares to arrive, Florida officials are finalizing construction on what critics are now calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued what it calls a “VIP Movement Notification” for Tuesday in Ochopee, and we know the notification is specific to Air Force One.
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.
A tenth Florida Panther has died this year.
A man has died after encountering a bear in Collier County, Gulf Coast News reported Monday.
Two endangered Florida panthers have died, after authorities said they were hit by vehicles.
A man has died after encountering a bear in Collier County, Gulf Coast News reported Monday.
A Miami woman has been arrested after deputies say she went on a statewide stealing spree.
A southwest Florida couple got a very unexpected visit at their front door.
As an investigation is underway after an airboat collision last week, one of the injured is recalling his terrifying ordeal with Local 10 News.
An investigation was underway on Saturday after at least 24 people were injured when two airboats collided in the Florida Everglades grasslands.
Sixteen people were hospitalized following a collision between two airboats in Collier County on Friday afternoon, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
The Florida Humane Society works to save animals in Broward and Collier counties.
Scientists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida found a Burmese python who ate a full-size white-tailed deer.
South Florida, it’s that time of year again. Stone crabs will be back in season beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
A 43-year-old man recently admitted to stealing from airline passengers while he worked as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.
A tornado warning was issued for extreme western Broward County Wednesday morning.
A newly-released incident report details the moments before a private jet crashed on Interstate 75 near Naples, killing two pilots from Broward County, and how a flight attendant helped the survivors escape before the plane exploded.
Collier County dispatchers were inundated with 911 calls after a private jet crashed on Interstate 75 Friday afternoon, killing two pilots from South Florida. Authorities have now released those phone calls.
Newly released video shows the moment a plane crashed onto I-75 and burst into flames on Friday.
A South Florida homeowner described what he experienced when a small plane crashed behind his home.
A private jet crashed on Interstate 75 in Collier County Friday afternoon, bursting into flames and killing at least two people, according to authorities.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a man from South Florida led troopers on a high-speed chase on Interstate 75 on the state’s west coast Wednesday morning, ending in a PIT maneuver — and handcuffs.
Sen. Rick Scott reported Thursday morning that criminals attempted to “terrorize” his family by making a prank call to emergency services.
A Florida man turned $5 into a $1 million prize after playing the Gold Rush Doubler scratch-off game, Lottery officials confirmed this week.
Wildlife activists rescued an animal that was stuck in a very tight spot in Naples.
If a child's birth name is William, but everyone calls him Billy, his teacher cannot call him Billy without getting a permission slip from his parents.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement asked the public for help on Friday night after a baby girl from Collier County vanished.
The Cuban pilot who defected in a Soviet-era biplane was supposed to be working on agricultural spraying work when he fled Friday to the United States, according to a Cuban government agency.
Evacuation and relief efforts continued in Southwest Florida on Tuesday, as the death toll surpassed 100 from the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian.
With many people in the Florida Gulf Coast area still without power, residents in Punta Gorda were working to rebuild the city after homes were badly damaged and boats were pushed by the storm surge of Hurricane Ian.
Hurricane Ian’s aftermath in Lee and Collier counties means driving through inundated streets despite a gas shortage, shopping only with cash at the few stores open, staying away from damaged electric poles, and finding boats stuck in unlikely areas.
James Spinuzza was overwhelmed on Thursday morning. He found sand, fish, and mud inside his garage and home after Hurricane Ian made landfall north of his home in Naples.
Hurricane Ian’s storm surge was so high a mother who was with her son, as her police officer husband worked, was prepared to evacuate her second-floor apartment in Naples.
A cement truck slammed into Alligator Alley’s eastbound toll plaza Monday, leading to traffic congestion heading into South Florida, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Deputies caught up with the suspects in Fort Lauderdale along West Sunrise Boulevard near the Florida Turnpike.
A home health aide has been arrested for allegedly stealing from a 93-year-old woman she was hired to care for.
A python contractor and a Florida wildlife officer hit the motherlode in Big Cypress National Preserve Monday night, finding two female Burmese pythons, nearly 20 hatchlings and nearly 100 hatched and unhatched eggs amid efforts to rid Florida of the invasive species.
Collier County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man who had a live baby alligator in a plastic tub and two firearms in his truck, during what they believed to a routine traffic stop.
A Hialeah man is facing grand theft auto and property damage charges in Collier County, after allegedly stealing a tractor-trailer truck worth $80,000.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office released bodycam footage of the Malayan tiger attack of a man who put his arm into a cage after hours at the Naples Zoo.
Several schools across South Florida are dealing with a mischievous trend on social media.
The officer's cruiser overturned several times before coming to a stop on the grass median of I-75, troopers said.
Forestry officials are battling about 4,000 acres of brush fires in southwestern Florida that has destroyed homes and shut down a stretch of Interstate 75.