The state’s emergency rules allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend state laws and a competitive bidding process to award millions of dollars from an account he alone controls.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an agreement on Friday with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to speed up Florida Everglades restoration projects, including completion of the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Reservoir.

Florida will build the 6,500-acre stormwater treatment area of the EAA Reservoir. The Army Corps will build the 10,500-acre, reservoir.

A longtime Everglades scientist was handcuffed in a Miami courtroom and taken to jail Thursday to begin serving a 10-day jail sentence in a case that divided the normally tightknit Florida environmental community.

Originally slated to be finished in 2034, the Everglades restoration project is now expected to be completed in 2029, according to DeSantis.

The long-term goal of the Everglades restoration project is for water flow from Lake Okeechobee to be cleaned going into the Caloosahatchee River, which empties into the Gulf of America, and the Indian River, which empties into the Atlantic.

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference Friday morning at a resort in Marco Island. The event at JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

Immigrants’ rights advocates today sued the Trump administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials celebrated the opening on Tuesday of the Caloosahatchee Reservoir, a vital cog in the restoration of the Everglades.

As Florida intensifies its immigration enforcement efforts under Gov. Ron DeSantis, the governor appointed State Sen. Blaise Ingoglia as the state's chief financial officer this week. "This issue wouldn't be around us having to spend this money if we did not have a broken legal immigration system," Ingoglia said.