WGCU Staff

A specific production lot of 6.7 ounce jars of bettergoods brand Pistachio Nut Butter is being recalled due to possible salmonella contamination.

Customers may notice changes in their tap water.

Lee County voters are reminded that the deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot for the 2026 primary election is 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6. The early voting period for the election begins Saturday, Aug. 8.

Publix says it has recalled all lots of GreenWise Organic Frozen Whole Blueberries and Whole Mixed Berries due to possible E. coli contamination.

A wave of copyright lawsuits brought by authors and publishers hinge on whether downloading and ingesting millions of copyrighted books without explicit permission to train Large Language Models constitutes copyright infringement or is protected as fair use. The AI Company Anthropic recently agreed to pay $1.5 billion dollars in a landmark copyright infringement settlement. There are other similar high-profile cases, including two against Meta and Google being led by bestselling novelist and part-time Naples resident Scott Turow. We talk with Mr. Turow, and local author Marty Ambrose, to learn what this all means for the publishing world.

Tony Smith is the new District 2 representative on the Charlotte County School Board.

There are some significant changes for hours and access at the Naples Zoo in August due to weather, improvements and maintenance.

Lee County Human & Veteran Services reminds residents that it will continue to partner with the Lee County Library System, LeeTran and United Way Resiliency Hubs to offer heat-related assistance to people experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable populations.

The South Florida Water Management District is conducting a 450-acre controlled burn in southern Hendry County today.

Well-known black-and-white landscape photographer Clyde Butcher broke his hip in a fall Tuesday night and underwent emergency partial hip replacement surgery on Wednesday.