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The president warned that natural disasters would only grow more extreme if meaningful environmental changes weren't made.

Some state and local governments have started tapping in to opioid settlement funds for law enforcement expenses. Many argue it should go toward treating addiction instead.

A new charter school surrounded by an eight-foot non-scalable fence and equipped with bullet-resistant glass is slated to open just a few miles from the...

Florida Gulf Coast University and its partner, the FutureMakers Coalition at the Collaboratory in downtown Fort Myers, has been awarded a $22.9 million dollar grant. The grant will help fund an effort to fundamentally change how people are trained and jobs are filled in Southwest Florida and beyond.

News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams is a good at doing what many of do procrastinating. And sometimes, it has its rewards.The fable about the ant…

This week’s installment from News-Press Storyteller Amy Bennett Williams introduces us to the seemingly unlikely Southwest Florida artist James McDonald,…

We’re going to go back in time to Thursday, September 29 — the day after Ian’s landfall — to listen to some of the voices we heard on Gulf Coast Life. We did the show live at 2:00 p.m. and then again at 7:00 p.m. Power and internet was still out for many, if not most people in our listening area, and cell service was spotty at best. So, we brought on members of our team to hear what they had seen and experienced to try to provide as much first-hand information as possible about what the region and its residents were going through.

Renowned guitar player, singer songwriter and music educator Dave Isaacs, known as the “Nashville Guitar Guru, is leading Babcock Ranch’s inaugural “Musician in Residence” program. We talk with Isaacs about his musical background, his unique and personal teaching style, and his vision for the new program.

The Chinese bowl was bought at a tag sale in New York. It sat for several years on a mantel before the owner sold it at auction for $2.25 million.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blajogevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, are free on bond after being arrested yesterday on corruption charges. Blajogevich is accused of putting a price tag on the U.S. senate seat vacated by Sen. Barack Obama and auctioning it off to the highest bidder, among other complaints.