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If the water bill passes officials hope it will help improve the ecosystem in the Everglades. The Water Resources Development Act authorizes the Army…

State business leaders say they hope to make Florida the Silicon Valley of wind mitigation by developing the technology to prevent damage from hurricane…

A new report from The Everglades Foundation found the River of Grass will generate more than $1 trillion for Florida’s economy during the next half-century.

Lee County schools have been out of session since a little before Hurricane Irma and they're not set to return until September 25th. Lee County School…

Governor Ron DeSantis made a stop at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples on Wednesday to announce that he wants more funding for Everglades…

The Collier County Medical Society and the Southwest Florida Physicians Association are working together to get more Naples physicians to transition their…

A handful of Florida Gulf Coast University students walked around campus with empty holsters Tuesday. It was planned by the university’s College…

Florida is on the way to becoming the very first state in the country to regulate the use of drones for police work.Drones are a kind of remote-controlled…

In April of 2023 a small group of southwest Floridians gathered to discuss their concerns about what they see as growing trends toward autocracy here in Florida. The primary focus of their concerns are the policies and positions being put forth by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the Republican-dominated state legislature, which they say demonstrate autocratic or authoritarian tendencies. That small group of people went on to create a nonpartisan nonprofit called Floridians for Democracy which works to bring people together who share similar concerns. They now have nearly 1000 members, and together they work to shine light on issues around freedom and what they see as government overreach.

The first documented use of a robot in surgery dates back to 1985 when doctors used what was called a PUMA 560 to conduct a neurosurgical biopsy. The robotic arm was originally designed for industrial use. The technology advanced through the 1990s and then in 2000 the da Vinci Surgical System received FDA approval for general laparoscopic surgery. It had a console the surgeon would use to control robotic arms and they could see what they were doing with 3D visualization and this became a cornerstone of modern robotic surgery that’s still being built upon today. In order to learn more about this not entirely new, but certainly cutting edge field of medicine, we talk with two people who oversee robotic surgery and surgical services at Lee Health.