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Lockheed Martin unveils a prototype of its new Orion space vehicle.

The Triple A Auto Club is again offering its Tow-To-Go program, now through January 2nd.As a last resort, Floridians who have had too much to drink can request a tow truck to pick them up along with their vehicle. The number to request the service is 1-855-2 TOW 2 GO or 855-286-9246. That’s 855-286-9246.

The Brown Anole – sometimes known as the Cuban Anole – is an exotic invasive lizard that likely arrived in the Florida Keys as a stowaway from Cuba. Its movement northward and across the Gulf States has also likely been as a result of individuals deliberately taken as pets or hidden in vehicles or eggs hidden in soil of plants being moved. It has been here for more than a century and its populations across the Southeast are sometimes enormous.

It's been almost a week since Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida, but recovery efforts are ramping up at a frenetic pace.

Motorized vehicles and other human-made technology can be unbearably noisy under water.

An investigation into an auto theft ring started in Southwest Florida in 2022 culminated this week with the arrests of six people in TampaThe Florida Department of Law Enforcement and representatives from the Tampa International Airport Police Department (TPAPD), Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) announced the arrests as part of an investigation into an auto theft ring.

Vermont and Rhode Island have been removed from a list of states with certain types of driver’s licenses deemed invalid in Florida.

Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. He moved to Florida in 1988 and drew cartoons for the News Press in Fort Myers until 2011. Doug created five cartoons every week, year in and year out, for nearly a quarter century. He has donated a large collection of his original drawings (mostly pertaining to the local environment) to Florida Gulf Coast University’s “Archives & Special Collections” at the school’s Wilson G. Bradshaw Library and students have completed the process of digitizing them and the team at the Archives helps students use Doug’s work in their studies.

Doug MacGregor has been an editorial cartoonist for more than 40 years. He got his professional start at the Norwich Bulletin in eastern Connecticut in 1980. He moved to Florida in 1988 and drew cartoons for the News Press in Fort Myers until 2011. Doug created five cartoons every week, year in and year out, for nearly a quarter century. He has donated a large collection of his original drawings (mostly pertaining to the local environment) to Florida Gulf Coast University’s “Archives & Special Collections” at the school’s Wilson G. Bradshaw Library and students have completed the process of digitizing them and the team at the Archives helps students use Doug’s work in their studies.

We talk with someone from FEMA to get an update on their work in this area and what kinds of assistance people can receive from them and how to apply. We also check in with someone from UF/IFAS to get a first-look at how Ian impacted agriculture in the state. And we talk with Florida Gulf Coast University President, Dr. Mike Martin, to see how campus operations have been impacted and what the plan is for the rest of the fall semester.