Activists and outdoorspeople insist the human, pollutive impact of the detention center imperils landscape and wildlife, not the other way around.

Vulnerable species — and the impact of the facility on their habitat and well-being — are at the core of a legal fight.

Three Burmese pythons were recently found at Florida homes, including one discovered inside a truck engine. While pythons generally avoid urban areas, they are known to inhabit nearby environments, ...

At Everglades National Park, visitors watched as a hefty alligator wrestled with a Burmese python, thrashing the snake's body in the water before sinking its jaws back in, reported the Miami Herald.

A group of Mississippi hunters were hoping for a 12-foot alligator and they had one in sight in an oxbow lake near Natchez. It was about 15 minutes or so before the season opened at noon on Friday, so ...

Mississippi's 2025 alligator hunting season opens on August 29 with favorable water levels expected. The alligator population has remained steady over the 20 years of legalized hunting in the state.

One Rankin County school had an unexpected guest Friday morning.The Pearl Police Department, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Animal Control and the Rankin County Emergency ...

The judge's order would essentially wind down operations at the site. A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration and the state of Florida to effectively wind down operations at the ...

The Trump administration is using state-run facilities to detain noncitizens. A group of Senate and House Democrats is pushing officials at the Department of Homeland Security for more information ...

John MacLauchlan is a digital content producer for CBS Miami. He attended Florida State University and graduated with a Communications degree. John joined the CBS Miami digital team in February 2007.

Alabama wildlife officials confirmed the capture of a 13-foot, 7-inch alligator weighing a jaw-dropping 620 pounds during what they call a record-setting night of hunting in the West Central Alligator ...