South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

Typically, when people think of dangerous animal encounters, they imagine them happening in remote wild places. In reality, they can happen almost anywhere, including along roadsides and near ...

In the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida, hunters from the area bagged a 19-foot Burmese python. It was one the biggest ones ever documented. Jake Waleri is a 22-year-old from Naples.

It was a productive 2025 for Burmese python hunter Kevin Pavlidis. Pavlidis once again captured the most pythons in December for the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination ...

With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters in Florida to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can ...

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, and hunters can sign up now to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win ...

When a South Florida pet python owner discovered her snake inside her car's dashboard, she drove to a nearby fire station for help getting it out. The ...

A 96-year-old’s $2M dream vanished after a fake Publishers Clearing House letter nearly swindled the South Florida senior in a sophisticated sweepstakes scam. Cuban community rallies near Mar-a-Lago ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...