Eric Staats

Ben Nguyen can’t count the number of times he’s heard his mom and dad tell what he calls the “immigration story.”

Naples voters elected three new City Council members Tuesday, the largest turnover on the dais at City Hall in more than a decade.

David Shealy is absolutely certain that the world’s largest captive snake is living, quietly and carefree, behind glass at his Trail Lakes Campground.

An endangered Florida panther kitten rescued from a farm field in Lehigh Acres is being cared for behind the scenes at the Naples Zoo.

Chris Nelson has no illusions that it will be easy to bag a python along the swamp buggy trail that twists and turns deep into the Big Cypress National Preserve.

Florida broke a grisly record Tuesday with the discovery of a dead endangered Florida panther on the side of a Hendry County road.

As Florida prepares to allow bear hunting as a way to manage a growing population, complaints about bears are decreasing in two dozen counties.

Butterfly lovers are buzzing this week about the chance for an iconic orange and black flutterer to find a new protected spot to land.

John Yates, a Florida fishing boat captain, claims he was wrongly convicted of destroying evidence — namely, the fish — that were under the legal minimum catch size in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mangrove experts have hatched a plan to rescue a dying mangrove forest on the edge of Marco Island. Monitors have counted 64 acres of dead mangroves and another 209 acres of stressed mangroves along State Road 92 between Marco Island and Goodland. Another 200 acres of mangroves are at risk if someth…