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The Community Blood Center, an affiliate of NCH, has a critical shortage of platelets and type O negative blood.Donors are needed immediately in Collier County to ensure that lifesaving blood products are readily available for accident victims, surgical patients, and people who have cancer and blood disorders.

Registration for Voluntary Prekindergarten is now open for summer programs in Lee, Collier, Hendry and Glades Counties. The free educational program is available to 4-year-olds that reside in Florida, regardless of family income.Voluntary Prekindergarten gives children a jump-start by preparing them for school and enhancing their pre-reading, pre-math, language, and social skills. VPK classrooms are taught by certified teachers with a focus on school readiness and social and emotional well-being. By developing the early skills children need to become strong students, they are more likely to be successful in school.

There is a critical need for types O negative and A negative blood in Collier County.The county’s Community Blood Center says there is a critically low inventory of those blood products, the result of a sudden increase in area usage.The only way to obtain adequate levels of transfusable blood is through donations from the community’s members.

Governor Ron De Santis was in Collier County this afternoon where he met with the local Department of Health for updates on Coronavirus. Afterward, he…

Last school year’s reports from the Florida Board of Education showed that a majority of the hundreds of books removed from public school libraries for review were returned with restrictions for age and parental consent.

The Collier County Board of Commissioners will meet May 10 to vote on a Local Rental Ordinance which would require landlords to give their tenants 60 days written notice for rent increases over 5%.

Southwest Florida residents lined up to listen to speakers like conservative commentator Rogan O'Handley at Naples’ third Patriot Fest Saturday afternoon.

The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. There is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decreases).

As agriculture gives way to planned developments, many worry the Florida panther is on a path to doom.Environmentalists say planned communities — Kingston in eastern Lee and Bellmar in eastern Collier and both the size of small cities — could hurtle the Florida panther from the Endangered Species List to extinction.

Collier County Schools holds its annual marching band show.