A water service interruption for some customers in the low-pressure sewer area of the Ackerman Municipal Services Benefit Unit in Charlotte County will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21 and Wednesday, April 22.

Gov. Ron DeSantis went on a renaming spree Tuesday. The spree came as he signed into law a transportation measure.

As it stands now just two people are working at the station on any given day or night.

Junk yards in LaBelle and Clewiston are taking up to two tons per resident April 20-24

Trips to each facility are three days a week. Seating is limited

Okeechobee County hasn't raised its ambulance rate nor the rate to hire firefighters and paramedics for special duty details in four years.

Counties throughout Florida participate in Operation Green Light each year as a way to encourage people to finally take care of those cumbersome traffic tickets, court costs and resulting fallout. In Lee County, for example, during the event, the Lee Clerk waives 25% collections fee on overdue traffic tickets.

The Fort Myers Beach Pier, dredging of an almost filled in Blind Pass and pickleball courts on Pine Island were among issues the Lee County Board of County Commissioners tackled on Tuesday.

Environmental groups have asked a federal appellate court panel to lift its temporary halt on closing an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Known as "Alligator Alcatraz," the center remains open due to arguments by Florida and the Trump administration. They claimed the state hadn't gotten federal reimbursement, so it wasn't required to follow federal environmental law. On Tuesday, during a hearing in Miami, the judges questioned how much control the federal government had over the state-built facility. Florida was notified in late September of $608 million in federal funding approval. The environmental lawsuit was one of three federal challenges to the facility since it opened.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday that moves oversight of the City of Naples Airport Authority, a special district. The local bill (HB 4005) requires the five authority board members to be elected by county voters rather than appointed by the city council.