The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to raise awareness and control the population of invasive pythons. The 10-day event in 2026 runs from July 10 to July 19 in several wildlife ...

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons ...

More than 200 of the invasive pythons were removed from South Florida during last year's hunt, according to the FWC.

Hundreds of hunters will scour the Everglades for cash prizes as a key window opens to stop one of Florida's most destructive invaders.

The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win Florida's annual python challenge last year by catching 60 pythons during the ...

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The annual Florida Python Challenge returns giving participants the opportunity to remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades while raising awareness about the threat posed by nonnative ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The 5-4 decision rejected a ...

The Supreme Court is rejecting a Republican-led attack on state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots. The decision leaves in place laws in more than half states and the District ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting a Trump-led challenge.