Michael Braun and Andrea Melendez

The big, silver StoryCorps Airstream has rolled into Southwest Florida and is ready to get the conversations flowing. StoryCorps has now helped nearly 700,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives, most of which are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in their own online archive.

This time last year the area was embroiled in a mystery of sorts — the vanishing of Harriet the eagle from the nest she shared with partner M15."WHERE'S HARRIET?" was the comment of the day at the start of February 2023. The question — never answered — left eagle nest watchers flummoxed, worried, and upset.

An artful duo from Southwest Florida has struck again. This time they have incorporated one Lee County school's way of teaching into a vibrant and eye-popping mural.

You'd be wrong to think that at 104 years, Dorothy Newberry is no longer an active participant in life.Judging by the reaction at her birthday celebration, Newberry is the lifeblood of her Bonita Springs senior community.

Crews began adding sand along Sanibel’s coast as part of the Sanibel beach renourishment project. Approximately 400,000 tons of sand will be brought in over the next four months to help replace sand that was pushed off by Hurricane Ian. The first truckloads of sand began arriving on the island Tuesday morning around 6 am.

“Free, Free Palestine” was chanted as a few dozen people marched on downtown Fort Myers Saturday evening in solidarity with the Palestinian People. Their route wound around the downtown streets before returning to the Library at sunset for Maghrib prayer.

A Fort Myers Beach business owner wanted to do something to honor his family's legacy and that of the town; Since Friday, two artists have been applying their talents to make the surface of a remaining structure something of a landmark showing how the town hasn't succumbed in Hurriane Ian's aftermath.

Activities across Florida Thursday as part of a nationwide general strike among Latinos and their allies dubbed “Un Día Sin Inmigrantes” — A Day Without Immigrants — included a large protest march through downtown Fort Myers streets and in Orlando.

After more than a month since Harriet was last seen, her eaglets are thriving under dad M15’s care. On Monday, March 27, the eaglets, E21 and E22, stretched their wings and spent time on the branches outside the nest. They are preparing to fledge (or take their first flight). E21 and E22 can be watched on the SWFL Eagle Cam installed by Dick Pritchett Real Estate at the Bayshore Road nest in North Fort Myers.

Ground was broken Wednesday in Charlotte County for the Beirut Peacekeepers Tower at the William R. Gaines Jr. Veterans Memorial Park.The tower will memorialize the 241 Americans killed 40 years ago in the Oct. 23, 1983, bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese Civil War.