Environmental groups and activists are cheering news that 'Alligator Alcatraz' may close soon due to high costs.

Alligator Alcatraz is closing in June, say news reports, a U.S. representative statement, comments from environmental groups ...

Vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz each Sunday since August 2025 aim to close the facility in Big Cypress National Preserve.

State of Florida and federal officials are discussing the closure of the controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration ...

The Department of Homeland Security has determined the state-run immigration detention facility is too expensive, and some ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial immigration detention center located in the middle of the Florida Everglades, could ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” always was meant to be ...

Every spring, Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe observes its corn dance season on lands the tribe holds as sacred within the fragile ...

Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center can stay open and is not subject to an environmental review, an appellate court has ruled. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ...

Folks, take it easy. There was no way to know it would end like this. Who could have predicted that a stunt with all the ...

At the time, biologists guessed the coyote swam from San Francisco, which is a little over 1 mile from the fortress. But it turns out the male coyote actually made an even longer swim from nearby ...

Clint Eastwood's iconic 1979 prison break thriller Escape from Alcatraz - hailed as a timeless classic with a near-perfect 97 ...