The immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades was embroiled in controversy before it opened last summer, and ...

The battle to prevent the Everglades Jetport may have influenced some important laws and events aimed at protecting the ...

In the 1960s, a proposal was made to build the world's largest jetport in the heart of the Everglades. It was a battle fought ...

Miami-Dade’s mayor wants Florida to lift the secrecy around the immigration detention center in the Everglades and allow monitoring of the 3,000-bed compound hastily built on a seized county airport. ...

A fleet of 18-wheelers lugging generators, lights and heavy machinery on Tuesday trucked deep into the Florida Everglades as construction of the newest immigration detention center, dubbed “Alligator ...

Note: This story is no longer being updated. President Donald Trump is visiting a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday for what's expected to be the site's official ...

Activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas formed Friends of the Everglades to fight against a proposed jetport in the late 1960s. Now ...

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava wants the state to give the county monitoring authority over the new Everglades immigrant detention center. The mayor cited in a Tuesday letter to the ...

THE EVERGLADES, FLA. (WSVN) - Two people were taken to the hospital after a small plane crash-landed near the Florida Everglades. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, they received a call about an ...