https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-1926-home-fire-contained-efficiency-conversion/ Money & World en 2026-07-31T03:20:00.000Z Fire crews contained a blaze at a Fort Myers home built in 1926 that had been divided into an efficiency, and the fire department reported no injuries https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/coastal-lee-rip-current-extended-saturday-evening/ Money & World en 2026-07-31T03:10:00.000Z The rip current statement covering Lee County's Gulf beaches has been extended by a day and now runs through Saturday evening https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/marco-island-cape-marco-high-rise-condo-fire-25th-floor-evacuated/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T17:40:00.000Z A fire on the 25th floor of a Cape Marco high-rise emptied the building at one in the morning, and one Marco Island firefighter was taken to hospital https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-beach-estero-boulevard-house-fire-partial-closure/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T15:50:00.000Z A fire has closed part of Estero Boulevard at the southern end of Fort Myers Beach, and the island's fire district says the structure had no occupants and nobody was hurt https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cars-on-5th-leaves-fifth-avenue-south-collier-courts-event/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T11:55:00.000Z Naples loses a February event that drew 15,000 paying visitors to Fifth Avenue South, and Collier County is now courting it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-millage-cap-73112-mills-vote-august-3-fire-fee/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T11:40:00.000Z Fort Myers votes August 3 on lifting its property tax cap to 7.3112 mills, which is exactly the ceiling a two-thirds vote allows https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-heat-advisory-second-day-rip-current-not-renewed/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T09:15:00.000Z Collier is under a heat advisory for a second straight day, with the same 106 to 110 forecast, while the county's rip current statement expired on Wednesday night and was not renewed https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/naples-manslaughter-charge-8th-avenue-southeast-chicken-coop/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T07:45:00.000Z A Naples man is charged with manslaughter four months after a shooting on 8th Avenue Southeast that the sheriff's office says began with a rifle fired toward a noise near a chicken coop https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-boil-water-map-four-active-notices-four-mile-cove/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T05:45:00.000Z Cape Coral's boil water map has turned over completely, with four notices now active and all three from Tuesday rescinded https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-climavision-radar-days-from-operational/ Money & World en 2026-07-30T01:25:00.000Z The private weather radar on the roof of Lee County's Public Safety Center is days from going live, eleven months after the county signed for it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/kelly-roofing-naples-insolvent-winding-down-customer-deposits/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T23:25:00.000Z Kelly Roofing told customers it is insolvent and winding down, and state records show the Naples entity was merged away in 2023 https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-boil-water-map-three-active-areas-paseo-reflection-isles-botanica-lakes/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T21:30:00.000Z The City of Fort Myers boil water notice map, empty on every previous check this month, was populated at 4:24 p.m. on Wednesday with three active areas covering Paseo, Reflection Isles and Botanica Lakes https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-maravilla-person-found-dead-officer-involved-shooting/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T21:25:00.000Z Fort Myers police say a person was found dead inside a Maravilla Avenue apartment and that a barricaded man, named by the department as Aaron Spencer, 23, was killed in an officer-involved shooting https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lehigh-acres-21st-street-sw-special-operations-warrant/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T21:20:00.000Z A Lee County Sheriff's Office special unit served a search warrant on 21st Street Southwest in Lehigh Acres on Wednesday, and deputies and SWAT were still on scene into the evening https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-maravilla-barricade-roadblocks-lifted/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T19:50:00.000Z Fort Myers police lifted the Cleveland Avenue roadblocks at 11:13 a.m. on Wednesday, after a morning scene the department described as a barricaded subject with shots fired https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-utilities-four-active-boil-water-notices/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T13:20:00.000Z Four Lee County Utilities boil water notices are in effect on Wednesday morning, and two of them started at 9 a.m. https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/rip-current-statement-coastal-collier-through-evening/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T07:15:00.000Z Collier County now has its own rip current statement, issued overnight and running through Wednesday evening https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-heat-advisory-index-106-110/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T04:56:00.000Z Collier County is under a heat advisory from 11 a.m. Wednesday, with a heat index forecast of 106 to 110 https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lehigh-acres-quantum-fiber-outage-eight-days/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T03:35:00.000Z More than 200 Lehigh Acres households have been offline for eight days, and the people losing pay were offered a 15 dollar credit https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-data-center-zoning-in-progress-regulations/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T00:45:00.000Z Collier County commissioners voted to keep pausing data center approvals while they write the rules, and chose that tool over a formal moratorium https://moneyandworld.com/sw-florida/cost-of-living-in-naples-florida/ Money & World en 2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z Collier County has the fifteenth highest income per person in America. Its metro area is the forty-sixth most expensive. Those are different facts.