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Flooding input sought for Charlotte Watershed Master Plan

More student debt cancelled through SAVE program

Borrowers may have gotten an email from President Biden this week, cancelling their student debt.

Olga Aleksandrova and Sweet Annie, a dog she cares for the Naples Humane Society. Annie is available for adoption!

On second anniversary of Russian invasion, Naples woman describes her flight from Ukraine

This week marks the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine. A Naples woman describes the ordeal that brought her to Southwest Florida.

Precautionary boil notice lifted for Babcock Ranch community

The precautionary boil water notice was declared in Charlotte County at the Babcock Ranch community on Monday.

The boundary for a moratorium proposal from Commissioner Bert Saunders’ takes in properties adjacent to or with direct access to Immokalee Road (above) from I-75 east to Oilwell Road and Vanderbilt Road east of I-75 to its end.

Collier Co. has a traffic problem -- could a moratorium fix it?

Commissioner Bert Saunders wants to pause the explosive growth in eastern Collier County. Will fellow commissioners approve?

Some traffic lights are down in Collier County

Collier County Traffic Operations has shut down power at 13 intersections in the county.

Immigrants offered new legal protections

Undocumented spouses and children of U.S. citizens gained new legal protections this week. WGCU’s Cary Barbor describes how it affects Florida.

This photo of a loggerhead turtle re-entering the water at dawn was taken by Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation photographer Shane Antalick as he was photographing the sea turtle team's nighttime tagging program, which runs from May through July.

Amid more than 500 turtle nests, no hatchlings yet, but any day now

As of Tuesday this week, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation has documented 554 loggerhead nests and 1 leatherback nest on Sanibel and Captiva Islands this year -- 422 nests on Sanibel and 133 nests on Captiva.

A tractor plow crew from the Florida Forestry Service Caloosahatchee Office drive toward a 40-acre wildfire off Green Meadow Road in eastern Lee County Friday afternoon.

Mop-up efforts underway on wildfire off Green Meadow Road

The smell of smoke was noticed miles away on the FGCU campus Friday afternoon.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed bills that push back against the possibility of a federal central-bank digital currency and seek to prevent credit-card companies from tracking firearm and ammunition sales. One of the bills (SB 7054) would prevent digital currency issued by the U.S. Federal Reserve or foreign governments from being treated as money under Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code.

Three additional Florida state office closures for the Holidays

Governor DeSantis cited 2024's hurricanes for announcing three extra days off during the holidays.

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