If you live in Florida, seeing alligators in a backyard pool, crossing the street or showing up at your front door is quite common. "You should never handle an alligator, even a small one, because ...

Florida’s fresh bodies of water are perhaps best known for the southern state’s most iconic resident: the American alligator.

Florida deputies and a trapper wrangled a 14-foot, 600-pound alligator blocking a Sarasota County road, an encounter captured ...

Visitors look at alligators at Homosassa Springs State Park, via State Library and Archives of Florida. Gators are "part of what makes Florida Florida," said author Rebecca Renner. The Pilgrims were ...

Deputies responded to reports of a 10-foot alligator that had decided to settle right in front of a 7-Eleven at 2751 N. River ...

An estimated 1.3 million alligators live throughout all 67 counties in Florida. Alligators are most commonly found in freshwater lakes and slow-moving rivers. A Southwest Florida river is considered ...

How many Florida deputies does it take to get a 600-pound alligator off the road? At least seven, a video shows.