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Here in Southwest Florida’s subtropical climate, its well-known that all sorts of plant and animal life indigenous to other parts of the world survives…

As Sunday marks Father’s Day, and just before the official start of summer, this week’s encore essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams…

This week’s essay from News-Press storyteller Amy Bennett Williams includes her musings about the centrality of the kitchen to family and home life. It’s…

The inaugural Fringe Fort Myers runs June 1-4 at the Alliance for the Arts and Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre. We’ll get a preview of the variety array of performance artists from all over the world who will be featured in a conversation with festival organizer Bill Taylor.

Jenny Tavery Bechtold has been with WGCU since June 2011. She began as a summer intern, and continued working with the station as a volunteer reporter. Jenny covered general news in Southwest Florida, helped produce Gulf Coast Live and is now producing the radio portion of the multi-platform project Makers. She grew up in Southwest Florida and particularly enjoys covering stories about science and technology. She graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in spring 2012 with a B.A. in communication and a minor in journalism.

In lieu of Gulf Coast Life Arts Edition today we’re featuring an episode of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories. The show uses the way songs connect us to our memories and our lives as a means to get to know our guests in a more intimate way. We're listening back to episode 83 featuring Fabiana Solano. She’s a native of Venezuela, an FGCU graduate and a photographer. This episode originally dropped in October of 2019, but since that time, Solano has earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Florida Gulf Coast University with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning, and she’s now working as a planner for the city of Punta Gorda.

Are smartphones and social media harming teen mental health? Here's why experts are split

'Kings and Pawns' explores Jackie Robinson's reluctant testimony against Paul Robeson

Brooks and Dionne on mass shooting frustration

How to Make Hospitals Better and Cheaper