Simply called "the Big Cypress" by Gladesmen and older folks in south Florida, the national preserve was established in 1974.

“The rescue was extremely difficult,” pal Ashley Kirk tells PEOPLE Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in The U ...

In December 2025, Jackie Amato and Tyler Kalb’s cow went missing for nearly 24 hours in Brooksville, Fla. After an “exhaustive search” that included the help of their friends, Ashley Kirk and her ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay land the biggest swamp slab of the year. Donald Trump floats move to new state Trump administration urges nations to call for the withdrawal of a UN climate proposal Gov.

For most high school senior football players, their dream is to continue playing in college and eventually reach the professional level. In reality that has a 0.023% chance of occurring. But Newberry, ...

A worker clocks out for a dinner break from processing tomatoes last April at the DiMare Ruskin packing plant in Apollo Beach, Florida. (Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post) For decades, ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla.-- The Florida Gators on Wednesday released its official roster for the 2026 football season, and on it included redshirt senior receiver Kahleil Jackson, a former walk-on who has not ...

Elon Musk's rocket maker SpaceX has acquired artificial intelligence startup xAI in a deal that will value the company at $1.25 trillion, CNBC has confirmed. The transaction comes ahead of a potential ...

Beyond questions of legality and oversight, Alligator Alcatraz has faced persistent skepticism from advocates, attorneys and lawmakers over an obvious issue: how an immigration detention camp in the ...

Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow. Florida uses its own local animals for weather predictions since groundhogs are not native. Various Florida communities ...