Cape Coral

Former Cape Coral council member Patty Cummings will not serve time in jail or prison after pleading guilty to three, third-degree felonies. She also will not have to pay additional fines, which could have been imposed.

Southwest Florida has a number of couples who perform regularly on stage. One such romance is Ryan Porter Craig and Cassie Sampson. They're on stage at The Belle Theatre in "Rent" through August 11.

Cape Coral students learned about internet safety tools directly from Google yesterday.

Belle Theatre's Peyton McCarthy commands the stage in Grounded as an F16 fighter pilot who is reassigned to fly drones from a windowless trailer in the desert outside Nevada after she becomes pregnant. McCarthy rises to the challenges presented by this ambitious one-woman show.

The State of Florida has provided funds to the City of Cape Coral as part of the Hurricane Housing Recovery Program to assist residents impacted by Ian. The disaster-related funds are to be used to assist income-eligible applicants with payments of their insurance deductible amounts.

Several Cape Coral schools were placed on lockdown Wednesday morning for several hours.Cape Coral High School, Heritage Charter Academy, Skyline Elementary, Challenger Middle School and Patriot Elementary were placed on lockdown as a precaution after a possible threat at the high school on Santa Barbara Boulevard South.All lockdowns were lifted shortly before 10:30 a.m.

Blue-green algae has been detected for the first time this year in canals near the Midpoint Bridge into Cape Coral and the Florida Department of Health issued a warning

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County has lifted a water quality advisory for the Cape Coral Yacht Club.

Nearly 40 square miles of North Cape Coral is sinking, an inch or more every year, due to over-pumping the aquifers below the city for household water.

A scheduled water main shutdown near Gleason Parkway will be effective at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, September 26.