https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-bed-tax-referendum-november-3-sixth-penny-paradise-coast/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T13:20:00.000Z Collier County's bed tax goes to a countywide vote on November 3, and the question on the ballot is whether visitors pay a sixth penny to finish the Paradise Coast Sports Complex https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-bald-cypress-circle-rollover-driver-extricated/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T10:55:00.000Z Firefighters cut the windshield out of a car to free a driver trapped in a single vehicle rollover on Bald Cypress Circle in Fort Myers, and the driver was taken to hospital for evaluation https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-lightning-trees-fire-southwest-second-terrace/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T10:50:00.000Z A lightning strike set trees on fire along Southwest Second Terrace in Cape Coral during Sunday's storm, and the fire department has confirmed the cause while publishing no incident release of its own https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/tropics-three-atlantic-areas-of-interest-none-near-southwest-florida/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T10:40:00.000Z The National Hurricane Center is carrying three areas of interest in the Atlantic a month before the climatological peak of the season, and not one of them is anywhere near Southwest Florida, with the highest seven day formation chance sitting at 60 percent thousands of miles away off west Africa https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-utilities-no-active-boil-water-notices-cape-coral-two/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T09:10:00.000Z Every precautionary boil water notice on the Lee County Utilities map now carries a lift date, leaving the county water utility with none in force, while Cape Coral, which runs its own system, still has two areas under notice and one of them is into a fourth day https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-heat-advisory-index-110-lee-county-no-alert/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T08:50:00.000Z Collier County is the only part of Southwest Florida under a weather product on Monday, a heat advisory written at 2.38 in the morning for a heat index of up to 110 between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m., while Lee County carries nothing at all https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/early-voting-collier-lee-through-august-15-primary-august-18/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T06:25:00.000Z Early voting is open in Collier and Lee through August 15, and the property tax amendment is not the thing on this ballot https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm141-fort-myers-crash-roadblock-unknown/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T23:50:00.000Z The crash the Florida Highway Patrol had open on Interstate 75 northbound at the Palm Beach Boulevard interchange in Fort Myers carries a clearance stamp of 8.01 on Sunday evening, and the entry has since dropped off the state dispatch board altogether https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/sky-sail-gas-leak-collier-county-construction-digging-teco/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T23:14:00.000Z Two fire districts worked an underground gas leak at the Sky Sail community in Collier County on Sunday after a pipe was struck by construction digging, and crews held it with clamps until the gas utility arrived https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/veterans-parkway-reopened-cape-coral-witness-cpr-fatal-crash/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T23:12:00.000Z Veterans Parkway in Cape Coral has reopened, and the newsroom that first carried the closure has now matched the death and added an account from a witness who says she called 911 and did chest compressions at the roadside https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/vibrio-vulnificus-lee-county-two-cases-florida-fourteen-gulf-beaches/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T22:40:00.000Z Florida has counted 14 Vibrio vulnificus infections and two deaths so far this year, two of the cases in Lee County and none in Collier, and the state's own numbers run close to an ordinary year even as Louisiana drives the Gulf Coast surge in the headlines https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lehigh-acres-reginald-cutts-convicted-human-trafficking-lee-county-jury/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T14:55:00.000Z A Lee County jury has found Reginald Cutts of Lehigh Acres guilty on every count including human trafficking, after a four day trial over crimes against one child, and the state attorney's office has set sentencing for September 28 https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-county-missing-man-michael-gianino-crosspointe-drive-immokalee-road/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T13:20:00.000Z The Collier County Sheriff's Office is looking for a 41 year old man last seen on foot on Crosspointe Drive near Immokalee Road and US 41 on Friday morning, and no update has been published in the day and a half since the appeal went out https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-veterans-parkway-crash-fatal-one-killed-chiquita-boulevard/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T13:05:00.000Z Cape Coral police say the overnight crash that closed Veterans Parkway near Chiquita Boulevard was a single vehicle and that one person was killed, three hours after the first report of it carried no injury information at all https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-boil-water-skyline-boulevard-cape-coral-parkway-43-acres/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T12:20:00.000Z Cape Coral has put a precautionary boil water notice over 43 acres around Skyline Boulevard and Cape Coral Parkway West, the same streets police closed on Saturday for a water main break, and the city's own address layer puts 367 active addresses inside the shape https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/royal-palm-square-fort-myers-council-august-17-14-acre-replat/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T12:10:00.000Z Fort Myers council decides on August 17 whether Royal Palm Square can grow, and Lee County's roll already carries the site cut into seven tracts across 14.10 acres https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-southbound-mm119-bonita-springs-crash-roadblock-cleared/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T10:50:00.000Z A crash blocked Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 119 in Bonita Springs just before one o'clock on Sunday morning, and the Florida Highway Patrol had the lanes back and the entry off its board within about twenty two minutes https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-veterans-parkway-crash-both-directions-chiquita-boulevard/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T10:45:00.000Z A crash investigation was blocking both directions of Veterans Parkway in Cape Coral between Southwest 20th Avenue and Chiquita Boulevard before four o'clock on Sunday morning, and no reopening had been reported three hours later https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-skyline-boulevard-water-main-break-southwest-road-closures/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T10:40:00.000Z A water main break closed southbound Skyline Boulevard and part of Southwest 47th Terrace in southwest Cape Coral on Saturday afternoon, and no reopening had been announced by the police department or the outlet that reported it by early Sunday https://moneyandworld.com/sw-florida/how-are-property-taxes-calculated-in-florida/ Money & World en 2026-08-09T00:00:00.000Z One Florida house, thirteen tax rates, and two taxable values that are never the same https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm142-north-fort-myers-crash-roadblock-unknown/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T18:30:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol has a crash open on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 142 in North Fort Myers this Saturday afternoon, and its own dispatch board states the roadblock status there is unknown https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/graham-freeman-lee-county-teacher-eleven-counts-fdle-5-1-million-bond/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T18:10:00.000Z A Lee County middle school teacher is being held in the county jail on eleven felony counts filed by state agents, and the booking record shows why the count is eleven rather than one, because Florida law makes each individual image its own separate offence https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bokeelia-boil-water-notice-cleared-pine-island-lee-health-department/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T15:40:00.000Z The Bokeelia boil water notice has been cleared, and the utility took it down about forty four and a half hours after it shut the main off, which is sooner than its own stated minimum implied https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/white-blvd-31st-street-sw-crash-roadblock-golden-gate-estates/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T13:57:00.000Z Westbound White Boulevard is open again at 31st Street Southwest in Golden Gate Estates, after a crash the Florida Highway Patrol logged as involving injuries held the road for about an hour and a half this morning https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/winding-cypress-naples-gofundme-cancer-grand-theft-charge-maribeth-jones/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T12:20:00.000Z A Naples community's activities director has been charged with grand theft after Collier County detectives said she told residents for two years that she had cancer, and GoFundMe has refunded more than forty one thousand dollars to the people who gave https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/edison-bridge-northbound-double-lane-closure-fort-myers-reopens-noon/ Money & World en 2026-08-08T11:45:00.000Z Two of the three northbound lanes of the Edison Bridge have been closed since eight o'clock last night and are not due back until around noon today, which is six hours later than the nightly closures on this bridge normally end 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