The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood out.

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control efforts.

A dramatic video shows how python hunter Carl Jackson wrestled with a 200-pound snake that he estimates dragged him 10-15 feet.

Officers say it was hard to tell who had a grip on who during this wildlife encounter.

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by ...

There was some big snake news in 2025. Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, was the 2025 Florida Python Challenge winner and the first woman to ever win the competition. She captured 60 of the invasive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers gouged thousands of miles of canals into South Florida’s soggy landscape to drain the Everglades for development and ...

During the past few years the Naples Daily News and The News-Press have covered numerous stories about Burmese pythons and the hunters who catch them in Florida. Hunters like Carl Jackson, who is a ...