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Hoping to avoid the same results of Lee County’s 2011 redistricting, residents of a primarily Black Fort Myers neighborhood told the Lee County commission Tuesday to listen to minority communities and avoid a repeat of gerrymandering when setting new districts for representation. -
Michael Donlan/WGCUIn 2001, Americans shared a horrific experience, the repercussions of which continue to reverberate 20 years later. WGCU reflects on 9/11 with the voices of people in Southwest Florida who witnessed that historical moment and how that moment changed their lives.
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Hospitals around Florida are seeing COVID-19 cases in record numbers, and more younger patients are being admitted to hospitals in recent weeks than since the pandemic began nearly a year and a half ago. We're getting an update from Lee Health officials. -
Hospitals around Florida are seeing COVID-19 cases in record numbers, and more younger patients are being admitted to hospitals in recent weeks than since the pandemic began nearly a year and a half ago. We're getting an update from Lee Health officials.
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The Golisano Children’s Hospital Mobile Pediatric Vaccination Clinic will be making stops around Southwest Florida next week to vaccinate children 12 years and older for COVID-19.
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Sea turtles lay their eggs in nests on Florida’s beaches beginning of spring and all throughout summer.
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Lee County Public Schools are dealing with a shortage of bus drivers.
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Groundbreaking at Fort Myers Beach's new Margaritaville Resort may have been subdued by questionably cloudy skies and the threat of a tropical storm that never arrived, but optimism for a sunny tourism renaissance at Times Square had spirits high.
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More than 905 manatees have died in 2021. According to a news release from the Center for Biological Diversity, those deaths are attributable primarily to habitat loss.
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River Park is an historically African American community in Naples, right on the Gordon River. Being so close to the water and canals has both residents and the NAACP thinking about the neighborhood’s future as the potential impacts of climate change become reality.
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At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention was paid to the farmworkers who are essential to keeping food on U.S. tables. Here in Florida, they also face extreme, even life-threatening heat, especially as temperatures rise with climate change.
