https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-se-5th-place-boil-water-243-addresses-densest-area/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T13:40:00.000Z The planned water shutdown Cape Coral had been publishing for a week went active on Southeast 5th Place between 9.09 and 9.14 on Tuesday morning, and although its 17.86 acres make it the smallest of the city's five live boil water areas, 243 addresses sit inside it, 166 of them condominium units, which makes it the most densely populated area on the map by a factor of nearly two https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-two-boil-water-notices-lifted-skyline-boulevard-47th-terrace/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T12:25:00.000Z Cape Coral lifted both of its Skyline Boulevard area boil water notices fifteen seconds apart on Tuesday morning, clearing 469 addresses that had been boiling since Sunday, and the city's map is down from six areas to four https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/calusa-harbour-fort-myers-1000-dollar-hurricane-evacuation-fee/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T12:05:00.000Z Fort Myers seniors at Calusa Harbour face a 1,000 dollar charge for each hurricane evacuation, and Florida's price gouging statute only switches on once the Governor declares an emergency https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/kelly-roofing-abc-supply-liens-naples-homeowners-paid-in-full/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T11:40:00.000Z Kelly Roofing customers who already paid in full are receiving construction liens from the supplier, and a new Kelly Roofing company was registered in Florida on August 5 https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-utilities-boil-water-wittman-drive-fort-myers-main-break/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T10:05:00.000Z Lee County Utilities went from a clean map to a live precautionary boil water notice on Monday, after a 4 inch main break on Wittman Drive in the McGregor area south of Fort Myers, and the notice was still in force on Tuesday morning covering about fifty addresses https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-dengue-two-travel-cases-no-advisory-buckingham-testing/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T08:20:00.000Z Lee County has two dengue cases this year and the state report attributes both to travel, while the four cases Florida mosquitoes actually transmitted sit in three other counties and neither Lee nor Collier is under an advisory https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/heat-advisory-lee-collier-both-counties-noon-to-seven/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T07:55:00.000Z Lee County joins Collier under a heat advisory on Tuesday, the first day this week both halves of Southwest Florida are covered, with the window shifted an hour later at each end to noon until 7 p.m. https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/sophia-cover-found-safe-cherry-hill-new-jersey-collier-sheriff/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T05:40:00.000Z The 16 year old who walked out of her Golden Gate Estates home on July 31 has been found safe in New Jersey, the Collier County Sheriff's Office has confirmed, and her father says the call reached him about four o'clock on Monday afternoon https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/nhc-cabo-verde-70-percent-tropical-depression-likely-latter-half-week/ Money & World en 2026-08-11T01:30:00.000Z The National Hurricane Center has raised the Cabo Verde disturbance from 60 percent to 70 percent over seven days in its 8 p.m. outlook and hardened its language from a depression that could form to one that will likely form, while still placing nothing in the Atlantic within reach of Southwest Florida https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-gas-leak-all-clear-evacuations-rescinded-se-47th/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T23:45:00.000Z The gas leak that emptied buildings along two blocks of southeast Cape Coral on Monday morning is over, with the fire department saying the hazard has been mitigated and the evacuation request rescinded, several hours after an excavator struck the line behind a seafood business on Southeast 47th Terrace https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/black-eagle-lane-fort-myers-death-investigation-heritage-palms/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T23:30:00.000Z The Fort Myers Police Department has confirmed an active death investigation on Black Eagle Lane, the residential street off Colonial Boulevard inside the Heritage Palms golf community, and two Southwest Florida newsrooms reporting from the scene say part of the street was taped off on Monday evening with no cause released by the department https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-punta-gorda-storm-statement-50-mph-gusts/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T22:50:00.000Z The National Weather Service has two special weather statements running over Lee County until 7.15 p.m. Monday, one issued at 6.37 p.m. for Cape Coral, Punta Gorda and the Burnt Store corridor and a second at 6.47 p.m. for Estero, San Carlos Park and Lehigh Acres, both carrying radar indicated gusts of 40 to 50 mph https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/naples-zoo-closed-maintenance-through-august-14/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T21:25:00.000Z Naples Zoo is shut all week for scheduled maintenance, a closure its own site dates from Monday through Friday, August 14, and one worth checking before you drive over with visitors or turn up on a membership expecting to get in https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/mcgregor-boulevard-bay-drive-downed-power-lines-both-directions-shut/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T21:10:00.000Z The Lee County Sheriff's Office shut McGregor Boulevard in both directions at Bay Drive on Monday afternoon after power lines came down across the road, and its advisory to avoid the area was still the agency's most recent public word on it more than two hours later, with no reopening announced by either the sheriff or the outlet carrying it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-beach-road-i-75-crash-roadblock-bonita-springs/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T20:40:00.000Z A crash with a roadblock landed on Bonita Beach Road at the Interstate 75 interchange in Bonita Springs at a quarter past four on Monday afternoon, and the Highway Patrol entry was off the state dispatch board about ten minutes later https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-diplomat-parkway-east-planned-shutdown-now-active-47-acres/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T19:30:00.000Z The largest shape on Cape Coral's water map, a 47 acre area at 1957 Diplomat Parkway East that the city had listed since August 6 as a planned shutdown for 9 a.m. on August 12, moved on to the active boil water layer on Monday afternoon, two days ahead of its published date and with no explanation posted, taking the city to six live areas and about 202 acres https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/tice-nuna-avenue-dog-found-dead-lcso-non-suspicious/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T18:55:00.000Z Lee County deputies opened an investigation after a dog was found dead in a driveway on Nuna Avenue in Tice, and the sheriff's office says the injuries are believed non-suspicious with a necropsy still to come https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-boil-water-hancock-bridge-parkway-five-active-areas/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T15:50:00.000Z Two more precautionary boil water areas went on to the Cape Coral map on Monday morning, one of them around a water main break on Hancock Bridge Parkway logged at 10.22 and the other a second shape at an address already under notice since Sunday, taking the city to five live areas and about 155 acres https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-gas-leak-se-47th-street-evacuations-excavator/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T15:35:00.000Z Buildings along two blocks in southeast Cape Coral were asked to leave on Monday morning after an excavator struck a natural gas line behind a seafood business, and the police department is telling anyone still in the area to keep heat and open flame away from it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-boil-water-se-10th-avenue-third-active-area/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T13:35:00.000Z A third Cape Coral neighbourhood went under a precautionary boil water notice on Monday morning after a water main break on SE 10th Avenue, and the 45.51 acre shape the city drew around it is the largest of the three areas now in force, while the notice issued on Friday has run into a fourth calendar day 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/personal-finance/rmd-age/ Money & World en 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z The law gives everyone born in 1959 two different RMD ages, and nobody has fixed it 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