Collier County

Naples Pridefest celebrated the LGBTQIA community peacefully this weekend.

Shy Wolf Sanctuary is providing members of Home Base Florida, a local non-profit dedicated to supporting veterans and military families, the opportunity to take part in the sanctuary’s Healing Hearts Program.Veterans enrolled in Home Base Florida’s Adventure Series participate in an educational encounter with the Sanctuary’s rescued animals that have experienced similar challenges in their lives.

A decision in a Collier County case involving an injunction to prevent the county's school board from signing a contract with a newly named superintendent will be made, "as soon as I can," the judge said Thursday.

Several groups interested in preserving democracy in Florida held a virtual meeting last evening.

Certain types of cancer occur more frequently in firefighters than in the general population, according to CDC research. A training program can help local firefighters.

Public meetings on the Collier County Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study will be held June 21 on Marco Island and June 22 in Naples.The meeting is a being hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in partnership with Collier County and the City of Marco Island.

New legislation as well as damage from Hurricane Ian have taken a toll on the Naples Pride Center.

The amended injunction request includes thirteen new pages Oakes said were obtained from the school board after a public records request. A hearing on the amended motion has been rescheduled for June 8.

Local newspaper reporters and photographers in Fort Myers and Naples are staging a one-day strike Monday. Workers at The News-Press and Naples Daily News unionized as the Southwest Florida News Guild in 2020 under the auspices of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America. They have not yet been able to get Gannett, which owns both publications, to agree to a contract.

As evidence of a pattern of increasing anti-semitism in Southwest Florida, Rabbi Adam Miller of Temple Shalom in Naples was harassed outside a school board meeting in May.