In 2022, Xander Robin booked a room at a Miccosukee casino at the edge of the Everglades and joined in the Florida Python Challenge. Every year, hundreds of hunters flood South Florida for a ...

The annual hunt returns to the Everglades as officials step up efforts to control one of Florida’s most destructive invasive ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will announce the dates for this year's Python Challenge on May 19.

Florida officials opened registration for the 2026 Python Challenge, offering $25,000 in prizes for hunters removing invasive ...

The new film 'The Python Hunt' follows the Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition in the Florida Everglades that aims ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News are planning special coverage of the annual python hunt in Florida. We are hoping to interview hunters.

Florida wildlife officials released more information about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge on Tuesday, which brings hunters ...

There are many types of hunts and hunting seasons in the United States, but Florida may have the most interesting hunt in the nation.

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

A python hunter earned multiple cash bonuses in March for capturing the most and longest snakes. The South Florida Water Management District's program pays contractors to remove invasive Burmese ...

Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. He was on his way back to near where he had just ...