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FWC recovers 37 stolen gold coins from 1715 fleet shipwrecks originally found off Florida's Treasure Coast.

Women's basketball coach Karl Smesko announces he's leaving to take a similar job in Atlanta

Winners announced in Lakes Park scarecrow contest

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County has issued a health alert for the presence of red tide near Gasparilla Island State Park Beach. This is in response to a water sample taken on December 30.

Turtle nest numbers were steady on Collier County's Keewaydin Island, but several storms disrupted hatchling success by almost half.

Cold weather conditions continuing through the end of the week has preparations being made for sheltering availability by Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota officials.

Fort Myers resident Annabelle Tometich’s compelling recounting of growing up biracial in Southwest Florida in her book The Mango Tree has been awarded the prestigious Southern Book Award.Her book joins two other Southern Book Award winners this year: Rednecks by Taylor Brown (St. Martin’s Press) in Fiction, and Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo (Bloomsbury YA) in Young Readers. Winning authors receive a donation in their name to the charity or nonprofit of their choice.

Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park gains more than 60 newly conserved acres, further connecting the world’s largest subtropical strand swamp.

More than 212,000 pounds of liquid egg products that may contain a cleaning solution with sodium hypochlorite is being recalled nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday.The liquid egg items, from Cargill Kitchen Solutions, a Lake Odessa, Michigan establishment, were produced on March 12 and 13, 2025.After conducting an investigation and thorough assessment of the contents of the cleaning solution, FSIS scientists concluded that use of this product should not cause adverse health consequences, or the risk is negligible, resulting in a Class III recall.