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The 2022 Atlantic Hurricane Season is well-underway, with southwest Florida’s recent brush with Tropical Storm Alex, which was the first named storm of the season. Alex caused significant flooding in parts of Florida and killed three people in Cuba. The storm serves as a reminder that even though the peak of hurricane season typically doesn’t arrive until September, severe weather can come at any time throughout the six month hurricane season and that now is the time to prepare. We talk with the director of Lee County Emergency Management's Department of Public Safety to get some tips on what residents should do to be ready.

The U.S. donation from its domestic supplies comes on top of the 50 million doses previously donated to Africa, which world health officials say is 500 million doses short of its goal.

The Zika virus has changed how blood banks collect donations in Florida – and now it’s changing sperm and egg donations as well.

We explore what it's like being a pediatrician during this time of COVID-19 with Dr. Angela D’Alessandro from Physicians’ Primary Care in Fort Myers.

A team of UF researchers is embarking on a 3 year project that will study the symbiotic relationship happening between the small Hawaiian bobtail squid, and a bioluminescent bacteria that lives inside of it, which provide the squid with a way to camouflage itself. They will be developing new tools allowing them to track what’s happening with that relationship at the cellular and even molecular level.

Public schools across Florida closed down back in mid March as the new coronavirus began spreading. Schools districts quickly developed remote learning programs, and students finished out the school year from home. These plans were created on the fly out of necessity. The School District of Lee County has been working on its reopening plans for the fall semester for months. We get details from superintendent, Dr. Greg Adkins.

On this episode of the Book Club, we hear from Julie K. Brown, the award-winning investigative journalist from The Miami Herald.

Appeals court judges heard oral arguments last week in the latest phase of a legal battle challenging Florida’s tax credit scholarship program that helps…

Feeding America, the nation's largest network of food banks, has spent September promoting awareness of Hunger Action Month while simultaneously…

Through social and political landscape changes, the role of higher education and its leaders is evolving. Florida Gulf Coast University President, Dr. Mike Martin; and Dr. James Cousins, Provost and VP of Academic Affairs at Kentucky Wesleyan College, reflect on the status of higher education and the challenges they face.