https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-sheriff-41-million-increase-request-342-million-budget/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T11:45:00.000Z The Lee County Sheriff's Office has asked commissioners for 41 million dollars more next year, and the county's own budget book shows the office already costs 342 million, against 193 million eight budget years ago https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-county-fy2027-tentative-budget-millage-3-0107-trim-notice/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T11:30:00.000Z Collier County has set the property tax rates that will print on this month's TRIM notices at exactly last year's numbers, and because taxable value rose 3.5 percent that flat rate still raises 21 million dollars more https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-area-transit-151-warn-mv-transportation-wedriveu-radio-road/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T10:10:00.000Z The state layoff notice behind Collier County's bus contract change lists 151 jobs at the Radio Road depot, and the union says nothing in law guarantees the incoming operator will carry over wages, benefits or the bargaining unit https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/palm-beach-boulevard-davis-crash-injuries-fort-myers-i75-mm148/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T09:55:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol has an injury crash open on Palm Beach Boulevard at Davis Boulevard in Fort Myers this Saturday morning, and its own board does not say whether the road is blocked, only that the roadblock status there is unknown https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-boil-water-se-5th-court-23-acres-se-13th-street-lifted/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T08:05:00.000Z Cape Coral has one boil water area live this morning, a 23 acre shape at 3622 SE 5th Court that went up on Friday morning and has not moved since, and it replaced a notice the city had carried at 1135 SE 13th Street for 94 hours https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/daniels-parkway-danport-crash-roadblock-i75-debris-fort-myers/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T04:45:00.000Z The crash that blocked the left and centre lanes of Daniels Parkway at Danport Boulevard in Fort Myers cleared about half an hour after it was logged, and the debris the same board had across the southbound lanes of Interstate 75 a third of a mile away has gone with it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/city-of-palms-park-consultant-card-associates-federal-forfeiture-fort-myers/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T02:40:00.000Z The consultant Fort Myers hired to scope the redevelopment of City of Palms Park is run by a man whose Marco Island home federal prosecutors are trying to seize, and the city says it is proceeding as planned for now https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/hyper-club-542-acre-collier-motorsports-plan-panther-habitat-petition/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T00:50:00.000Z A plan to turn a 542-acre former Ford test track in eastern Collier County into a private motorsports club with homes has drawn close to 10,000 petition signatures and objections from two conservation groups https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-ramsey-way-preschool-searched-after-driver-fled-traffic-stop/ Money & World en 2026-08-07T00:35:00.000Z Fort Myers police taped off part of a shopping plaza on Ramsey Way and searched a preschool after a driver ran from a traffic stop, and everyone inside the school was found safe https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/stan-gober-bridge-goodland-daytime-lane-closures-deck-beam-repairs/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T22:50:00.000Z Daytime lane closures are coming back to the Stan Gober bridge at Goodland within a fortnight, this time for work under the deck, and the flaggers are the part drivers will feel https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-cyclosporiasis-32-cases-state-352-broward-passes-lee/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T20:35:00.000Z Lee County's cyclosporiasis count reached 32 in the state's Thursday update, and Broward passed it to take second place after adding twelve cases in a single week https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bokeelia-water-main-break-boil-water-notice-north-of-pineland-road/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T18:45:00.000Z Bokeelia has no water north of Pineland Road while a main is repaired, and the utility says the boil water notice starts running only once the taps come back on https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/sophia-cover-missing-golden-gate-estates-day-six-fdle-runaway/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T16:20:00.000Z A 16 year old walked out of her Golden Gate Estates home at a quarter to one in the morning and has not been seen for six days, and the state has her logged as a runaway while her father says she has never run in her life https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-golden-gate-parkway-i-75-exit-105-crash-ramps-cleared/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T14:25:00.000Z A crash at the Golden Gate Parkway interchange with Interstate 75 in Naples put a roadblock on both the southbound entrance and the southbound exit ramp for part of the morning, and both are clear again https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-four-boil-water-notices-lifted-new-area-se-13th-street/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T14:15:00.000Z Cape Coral cleared its last four boil water notices inside fourteen minutes this morning, every one of them faster than the city's own median, and then put a new area on the map at 1135 SE 13th Street https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-southbound-north-fort-myers-two-lanes-blocked-crash/ Money & World en 2026-08-06T14:05:00.000Z Two lanes of Interstate 75 southbound were blocked in North Fort Myers for about three and a half hours after a crash logged at 8.33 this morning, and the Florida Highway Patrol dropped the entry from its dispatch board shortly after noon