https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/collier-trim-notices-mailed-august-17-vab-deadline-september-11-fee-50/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T18:20:00.000Z Collier County mailed its 2026 TRIM notices on August 17, which puts the deadline to challenge a property value at September 11, and the two county offices that publish that deadline do not state the same closing time https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/fort-myers-beach-council-approves-roar-offshore-noise-waiver/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T17:55:00.000Z Fort Myers Beach town council voted unanimously on Monday morning to approve the final details of the Roar Offshore powerboat races and to waive the town's noise restrictions for the weekend, bringing the event back four years after Hurricane Ian put it on hold https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/williams-street-fort-myers-first-degree-arson-arrest-mario-cabrera/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T17:45:00.000Z Fort Myers police say a fire set outside an occupied home in the 100 block of Williams Street on Sunday night did significant damage to the exterior, and they arrested a 24-year-old man at the scene on a charge of first-degree arson https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/hibiscus-lane-naples-trailer-home-fire-collier-deputies/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T17:35:00.000Z A trailer home on Hibiscus Lane in Naples burned down late on Sunday night, and the Collier County Sheriff's Office says it does not yet know how the fire started or whether anyone was inside at the time https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-southbound-alico-road-fort-myers-crash-injuries-cleared/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T17:15:00.000Z A crash with injuries blocked the left lane of Interstate 75 southbound at the Alico Road overpass in Lee County for about forty minutes on Monday morning, and the Florida Highway Patrol has since marked the roadway open https://moneyandworld.com/technology/cost-of-switching-software-vendors/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z The history did not come with us https://moneyandworld.com/economics/gdp-per-capita-by-state/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z The output is counted where it happens. The people are counted where they sleep https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/dorchester-street-boil-water-lifted-chandler-avenue-still-open/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T17:10:00.000Z Lee County lifted the boil water notice on Dorchester Street in the Villas at 9.23 on Sunday morning, forty eight hours after the main broke, and left the Chandler Avenue notice a few streets away open https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-alligator-alley-mm85-collier-crash-injuries-cleared/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T17:00:00.000Z A crash with injuries closed part of Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 85 on Alligator Alley in Collier County shortly after midday on Sunday, and the state dispatch board no longer carried it forty minutes later https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-southbound-mm141-fort-myers-crash-right-lane-cleared/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T16:55:00.000Z A crash blocked the right lane of Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 141 in Lee County late on Sunday morning, and the state dispatch board had dropped it by lunchtime https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-unlicensed-contractor-fines-2500-five-dollar-permit-fee/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T11:55:00.000Z Cape Coral has given itself the power to fine unlicensed contractors up to 2,500 dollars a violation, and it is paying for the investigator who will find them with a five dollar charge on every building permit https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/state-farm-5-billion-auto-dividend-florida-average-173/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T11:25:00.000Z State Farm has started paying out a five billion dollar dividend to its auto customers, Florida notifications went out this week, and the average payment in this state is 173 dollars https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/villas-fort-myers-two-boil-water-notices-open-since-friday/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T10:25:00.000Z Two precautionary boil water notices covering a stretch of Dorchester Street and Chandler Avenue in the Villas area of Fort Myers have been open on Lee County's water map since Friday morning, and the county did not lift either one when it cleared three others on Saturday https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/alico-road-corkscrew-hit-and-run-southbound-lane-blocked/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T06:35:00.000Z A hit-and-run crash was blocking Alico Road southbound where it meets Corkscrew Road in eastern Lee County at two o'clock this morning, Gulf Coast News reported, and the state dispatch board carried no Lee County entry half an hour later https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/faith-tenkley-page-field-pilot-account-landing-gear-engine-boca-raton/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T03:35:00.000Z The pilot who put a Page Field aeroplane into the Atlantic off Boca Raton on Saturday has been named, and she has given her own account of a broken landing gear, a failed engine and a decision that a full fuel load made the water safer than the runway https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/invest-95l-bermuda-30-percent-no-threat-to-florida/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T02:50:00.000Z The National Hurricane Center is carrying three areas of interest in the Atlantic on Saturday night, and the closest one to the United States, the low east-southeast of Bermuda that Gulf Coast News identifies as Invest 95L, is given 30 percent over seven days and no direct threat to Florida https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/stringfellow-road-saint-james-city-crash-injuries-complete-roadblock/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T01:47:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol is carrying a crash with injuries and a complete roadblock on Stringfellow Road in St. James City, which is the one road running the length of Pine Island and has no parallel route beside it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lehigh-acres-53rd-street-west-crash-injuries-no-unit-dispatched/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T01:15:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol now records a unit on scene at the crash with injuries on 53rd Street West in Lehigh Acres, an hour and fifty two minutes after the call came in, and the state board still carries the traffic effect as an unknown roadblock https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/everglades-boulevard-randall-boulevard-collier-crash-roadblock/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T00:02:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol carried a crash with a roadblock at Everglades Boulevard North and Randall Boulevard in Golden Gate Estates for about twenty minutes this evening, and the call has now come off the state's board https://moneyandworld.com/finance/student-loan-default-rate/ Money & World en 2026-08-23T00:00:00.000Z The official student loan default rate is 0.0 percent. Nine million borrowers are in default https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/page-field-fort-myers-plane-crash-ocean-boca-raton-pilot-uninjured/ Money & World en 2026-08-22T20:35:00.000Z A single engine plane that took off from Page Field in Fort Myers came down in the Atlantic off Boca Raton this morning, and the one person on board, the pilot, was pulled from the water without injury https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/julian-wolf-13-years-accessory-immokalee-road-ambush-collier/ Money & World en 2026-08-22T20:15:00.000Z The last of the three people charged in the 2023 Immokalee Road ambush that left a Collier couple shot in the head has been sentenced, and the State Attorney says the man who testified against the other two drew 13 years for accessory after the fact https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/north-fort-myers-grass-fire-contained-evacuation-notifications-lifted/ Money & World en 2026-08-22T19:40:00.000Z The Lee County Sheriff's Office says the North Fort Myers grass fire has been contained and there is no risk to the public, and the potential evacuation notifications sent to five streets remain lifted https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/naples-july-2026-median-590000-inventory-down-21-percent/ Money & World en 2026-08-22T19:10:00.000Z Naples sold 14 percent more homes in July than a year ago while a fifth of the listings disappeared, and the supply cushion the market spent two years rebuilding has now been cut by a third https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/north-fort-myers-grass-fire-bayshore-road-evacuation-notifications/ Money & World en 2026-08-22T18:50:00.000Z A grass fire is burning near Bayshore Road in North Fort Myers, and the Lee County Sheriff's Office has sent potential evacuation notifications to five streets, none of them mandatory https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/marco-island-23-million-bond-passes-recount-2259-to-2258/ Money & World en 2026-08-22T18:25:00.000Z The Marco Island borrowing survived its recount by the same single vote that carried it on election night, and the county's second unofficial count now stands at 2,259 to 2,258