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Call her Florida Python Challenge Queen

WFLA Tampa on MSN · 9h

FWC announces winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge™ on Wednesday.

Saints Wire · 17h

Call her the Florida Python Challenge Queen: FWC announces $10,000 winner for competition

The annual competition to raise awareness and eliminate the invasive Burmese python was held July 10-20, 2025 in the Everglades.

The Palm Beach Post · 1h

Florida Python Challenge winner nabbed 60 pythons and she's just 4'11"

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

FWC Approves Dec. Black Bear Hunt

WFLA Tampa on MSN · 10h

FWC unanimously approves Florida’s 1st black bear hunt in 10 years

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is meeting for a final hearing on the rule proposals on black bear hunting.

FWC approves 1st black bear hunt in a decade amid fierce opposition and legal threats

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted unanimously Wednesday to establish a black bear hunting season,

FOX 35 Orlando on MSN · 10h

Florida bear hunt: FWC approves proposal for first bear hunt in 10 years

Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted on Wednesday to host a proposed three-week bear hunt in December. This will be the first time in 10 years that hunting black bears will be permitted in the Sunshine State.

9mon MSN

FWC approves preliminary guidelines to open Apalachicola Bay for limited wild oyster harvest

Thursday morning, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted to approve preliminary guidelines that would ...

2hon MSN

NY teen killed in jet ski accident in Florida while on family vacation

Rachel Aliza Nisanov, 13, was riding in tandem on a jet ski with her sister on Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale's Intracoastal ...

Tampa Free Press on MSN17h

FWC Approves Revised Guidelines To Bolster Burrowing Owl Conservation

New Measures Aim to Streamline Permitting and Enhance Protection for Threatened Species The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

22hon MSN

Bear hunting returning to Florida for first time in a decade following unanimous FWC vote

FWC officials said the proposed hunt is aimed at managing Florida’s growing black bear population. The commission is ...

18hon MSN

FWC rescues man clinging to kayak with head barely above water: ‘You’re one lucky S.O.B.’

A man was rescued after officers found him clinging to his overturned kayak with “his head barely above water,” the Florida ...

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