Anyone joining the 2026 Florida Python Challenge must register and complete an online training course.

Florida is again inviting both residents and visitors to help remove Burmese pythons from the Everglades, with $25,000 in ...

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...

The water in my bath had gone lukewarm before I noticed. The book was balanced on my chest. The traffic outside the window ...

The group compromised at least 10 regional organizations, including two state-owned entities, and deployed a new backdoor.

Discover how simple, rainfall-based irrigation strategies offer smallholder farmers a scalable, low-cost path to saving wheat ...

Video from previous story: FWC announces winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA )— In just about a ...

The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program rewards hunters for removing the invasive snakes. In May 2026, contracted hunters eliminated 315 python eggs from the ...

Columbus Water & Power is transitioning from quarterly to monthly billing for all water and sewer customers. The change, requested by customers for easier budgeting, will be fully implemented in July.

There is a saying that common sense isn't very common anymore. That was brought home quite clearly in a story in your paper about a fellow who caught a python in Everglades National Park and was fined ...

The National Science Foundation has begun dismantling a major ocean monitoring network more than a decade earlier than planned. Some scientists say it will be a “tragic” loss of crucial information ...

Python hunting occurs year-round in Florida to combat the invasive species disrupting the Everglades ecosystem. The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program pays hunters to ...