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Monday, April 27, 2026
- Wild Turkey Strand Preserve to temporarily close for habitat enhancement project
- FGCU student's virtual underwater experience brings the deep to the shore
- Trump uninjured after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no injuries reported
- Florida to redraw congressional maps next week; here’s what you need to know
- Emergency rule to further protect Florida from threat of New World Screwworm
- Lee County Utilities alerts customers to scheduled water outage, boil alert
- Final NTSB report on 2024 jet crash on I-75 in Naples shows engine corrosion was main issue
- After years of struggle, Okeechobee municipal airport finally taking off
- South Florida Water Management District sets fires to get ahead of wildfires
- Amira Fox only candidate to file for state attorney as deadline passes Friday.
- Okeechobee approves contract for new county administrator Jessica Bezares
- Okee-One data center in Okeechobee declared DOA by state; County officials scrap proposal to allow other energy hogs
- Fort Myers Beach working to turn around sea turtle hatchling 'disorientations'
- Allure condo project in eastern Fort Myers uncertain after CRA rejects incentive ask
- Experience not a factor in teacher contract non-renewals, says Lee union president
- Florida Gulf Coast University breaks ground on new health sciences building
- Resurfacing work to begin on sections of Burnt Store Road and Pine Island Road
- Lee County students with special needs being moved to another school; parents concerned
- As development booms, Sarasota County faces $1.7B transportation shortfall
- Wilson Pigott Bridge/S.R. 31 reopens Thursday morning after 10-day closure
- Gov. DeSantis signs bill on Earth Day shutting down local climate change efforts
- Nutella: The long-shot sea turtle who made it home on Earth Day
- Opposition to data centers mounts; more could come to rural Okeechobee County
- Notice of Elections mailings now being sent to all active Collier voters
- Some Lee County residents to have earlier trash pickup
- Free autism screenings offered for young children at Golisano Children’s Hospital
- Southwest Florida International Airport made history on March passenger numbers
- Plane in Upper Captiva take-off crash had been inspected, repaired days before
- Teacher, assistants may be on the cuts list as Highlands County tries to make school budget ends meet in the age of vouchers
- Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe's Nate Jacobs weaves old wives tales and superstitions into new musical