https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/pointe-estero-beach-resort-safe-thefts-maintenance-worker-arrest/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T19:42:00.000Z Deputies say a maintenance worker at a Fort Myers Beach resort signed out the master key that opens the guest room safes, and three sets of guests then reported cash, pills and a wedding ring gone from theirs https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lakes-park-splash-pads-reopen-fort-myers-hurricane-ian-rebuild/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T18:20:00.000Z Lee County cut the ribbon this morning on the rebuilt splash pads at Lakes Regional Park in Fort Myers, a 2.6 million dollar replacement paid for with state disaster money after Hurricane Ian ruined the originals almost four years ago https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-health-unitedhealthcare-out-of-network-january-2027/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T17:20:00.000Z Lee Health is ending its hospital and physician contracts with UnitedHealthcare on 31 December, which puts every Lee Health hospital and doctor out of network on 1 January 2027 for affected employer, individual and Medicare Advantage plans https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-springs-vincent-road-brush-fire-roundabout-one-lane/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T14:58:00.000Z Bonita Springs crews are working to put the Vincent Road brush fire all the way out today, the roundabout at the scene is down to one lane while they do it, and Verizon service out there is running on a generator https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-mm111-naples-fhp-two-vans-rear-end-62-year-old-driver-died/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T14:20:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol has given its account of Tuesday's fatal crash on Interstate 75 at Naples, and it revises the picture on the record overnight: two vans rather than a van and a box truck, a rear-end collision with traffic stopped ahead, and the driver who died was the one behind https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/buckingham-royal-palm-ese-consolidation-resumes-flagship-campus-august-2027/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T14:05:00.000Z The School District of Lee County has lifted the pause it placed on moving Buckingham Exceptional Student Center in April and will now consolidate it with Royal Palm Exceptional Center on the Royal Palm campus, with the combined facility due to open to students in August 2027 https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-43rd-street-boil-water-notice-rescinded-ninth-day/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T14:05:00.000Z Cape Coral has rescinded the precautionary boil water notice around 1019 SE 43rd Street, the city's longest running area, after seven days and twenty-two hours, and four areas covering about thirty acres stay active https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-health-mychart-phishing-medicare-kit-senior-health-package/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T13:55:00.000Z Lee Health says text messages and emails offering a MyChart Medicare Kit or a Senior Health Package are not from the health system, and are being sent by third parties trying to collect personal and sensitive information from its patients https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/invest-96l-falls-sixty-percent-eight-am-outlook-less-favorable-weekend/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T13:45:00.000Z Six hours after saying a tropical depression was likely to form in the eastern Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center has cut Invest 96L to 60 percent in both of its windows and now says conditions there turn against the system by the weekend https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/landin-ahrens-immokalee-hit-and-run-arrest-dodge-pickup-estero/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T13:20:00.000Z Troopers have arrested a 42 year old Immokalee man over the State Road 29 hit-and-run that killed Landin Ahrens, and say the pickup they impounded in Estero had both headlamps replaced after the crash https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/arthrex-41-unit-corporate-housing-palm-river-naples/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T11:40:00.000Z Arthrex is finishing a 41-unit apartment building in Naples that it will not rent to the public, because its own new hires cannot land here fast enough without it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/rv-doctor-fort-myers-lee-county-lawsuits-customer-complaints/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T11:10:00.000Z RV Doctor in Fort Myers is named in two active Lee County civil cases and a run of customer complaints over motorhomes their owners say sat unfinished for a year or longer https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/invest-96l-seventy-percent-both-windows-95l-development-no-longer-expected/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T10:20:00.000Z The National Hurricane Center now carries the eastern Atlantic disturbance at 70 percent in both of its windows and says a tropical depression is likely to form there within a day or two, while the Bermuda system has fallen to near zero and is no longer expected to develop at all https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-nw-16th-terrace-usps-mail-delivery-halted-pickup-north-branch/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T07:40:00.000Z The Postal Service has stopped delivering to homes on Northwest 16th Terrace in Cape Coral, the street where the city is already drilling into a sinking road, and is holding the mail for collection at the Cape Coral North branch https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-plan-overhaul-north-fort-myers-meeting-buckingham-bayshore/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T05:40:00.000Z More than 125 people turned out in North Fort Myers to ask what Lee County is about to do to the community plans that hold back development in Buckingham, Bayshore, Lehigh Acres and North Fort Myers, and the county says the rewrite adds no density https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-three-boil-water-notices-added-tuesday-heron-coach-way-yorkshire-chandler-lifted/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T03:25:00.000Z Lee County logged three more boil water notices on Tuesday, two of them at the same Heron Coach Way address three hours apart, and lifted the Chandler Avenue notice after ninety six hours https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/operation-statewide-shield-twelve-recoveries-fort-myers-region-163-statewide/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T03:05:00.000Z Twelve of the 163 children recovered in Florida's largest child recovery operation are credited to the Fort Myers region, and the state's own release does not say the twelve were found here https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-mm111-naples-northbound-reopens-roadway-open/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T00:50:00.000Z Northbound Interstate 75 at Naples is open again, the state's remarks field on the mile marker 111 fatality now reading roadway open, ending a second full closure that stood for about an hour and a quarter https://moneyandworld.com/finance/auto-loan-delinquency-rate/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z American car loans are not going bad faster. They are going bad for longer https://moneyandworld.com/small-business/true-cost-of-an-employee/ Money & World en 2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z Ninety days, then seven months https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-mm111-naples-all-northbound-lanes-blocked-again/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T23:30:00.000Z The Interstate 75 fatality at Naples has taken every northbound lane again, a second full closure of the same call that entered the state board between 7.19 and 7.24 this evening after almost two hours in which only the left lane was down https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-mm111-naples-van-box-truck-one-dead-two-injured/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T23:00:00.000Z The first outside reporting on the Interstate 75 fatality at Naples fills in what the state board never carried, a van and a box truck near Immokalee Road, one person dead and two more being treated, with the left lane still blocked nearly two and a half hours after the call https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm111-naples-fatality-left-lane-blocked/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T22:20:00.000Z The crash that closed northbound Interstate 75 at Naples this afternoon has been retyped by the state as a fatality, the sixth description it has given one call, with the left lane still blocked more than three and a half hours after the first unit was sent https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm111-naples-two-lanes-reopen-left-lane-blocked/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T21:32:00.000Z Two of the three northbound lanes of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples have reopened, ending a full closure that stood for about half an hour, with the left lane still blocked and the crash that caused it still being worked https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm111-naples-all-lanes-closed/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T21:06:00.000Z Every northbound lane of Interstate 75 at mile marker 111 in Naples is now closed, a third escalation of a call the state first published as a disabled vehicle, with the full shutdown recorded between 4.49 and 4.59 and still standing at 5.05 https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/barron-collier-high-school-student-arrested-knife-box-cutter/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T20:45:00.000Z A 15 year old Barron Collier High School student was arrested on Tuesday after the sheriff's office says a butterfly knife with a four inch blade was found concealed in their clothing along with a box cutter, and deputies say no threat was made and they believe the school was never in danger https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm111-naples-crash-injuries-left-center-lanes-blocked/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T20:38:00.000Z A call the state first published as a disabled vehicle on northbound Interstate 75 at Naples has been retyped twice in seven minutes and now reads as a crash with injuries, with the left and center lanes blocked at mile marker 111 and troopers on scene since 4.40 with the lanes still down https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-springs-fires-seventy-six-acres-combined-hot-spots-lightning/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T19:50:00.000Z The two Bonita Springs brush fires have burned seventy six acres between them, both are now at least ninety five per cent contained, and the fire chief says what is left is hot spots sitting inside the burn https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/hibiscus-lane-collier-fire-death-not-suspicious-state-fire-marshal/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T15:15:00.000Z The death in Sunday night's mobile home fire on Hibiscus Lane was not suspicious, the Collier County Sheriff's Office has told WINK News, and the State Fire Marshal has taken over the investigation into what started it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-five-active-boil-water-areas-two-added-tuesday-morning/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T15:05:00.000Z Cape Coral's active boil water layer has gone from three areas to five since this morning, and the two additions are records the city first opened on 17 August, doubling the acreage under a precautionary notice https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm144-north-fort-myers-roadway-is-clear/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T14:55:00.000Z The two right lanes are open again on northbound Interstate 75 at mile marker 144 in North Fort Myers, and the state's own note on the crash it logged there at 9.16 now reads that the roadway is clear https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/i-75-northbound-mm144-north-fort-myers-two-crashes-lanes-blocked/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T13:40:00.000Z Northbound Interstate 75 through Lee County took three crash calls in twelve minutes this morning, and the one the state is still carrying has the two right lanes blocked at mile marker 144 in North Fort Myers https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/naples-3-913-regular-second-highest-florida-metro-diesel-below-national/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T13:30:00.000Z Naples is paying $3.913 a gallon for regular, the second highest of Florida's twenty four metro areas, while diesel across Southwest Florida has slipped below the national average after a month above it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/palm-beach-boulevard-broadway-alva-roadway-is-clear/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T12:55:00.000Z The Florida Highway Patrol now records the roadway as clear at Palm Beach Boulevard and Broadway Street in Alva, closing out a morning that began with the corridor shut and no close parallel route to take instead https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/rsw-cost-per-enplanement-16-64-lee-port-authority-fy2027-budget/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T12:05:00.000Z Southwest Florida International Airport proposes to charge the airlines $16.64 for every departing passenger next year, up from $14.03, and the rise is bond coverage on the terminal expansion rather than the cost of running the place https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lehigh-acres-school-bus-minor-crash-east-8th-joel-boulevard/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T11:55:00.000Z A school bus carrying one student was in a minor crash with a car near East 8th Street and Joel Boulevard in Lehigh Acres on Tuesday morning, and the fire department reported no injuries https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/palm-beach-boulevard-broadway-street-alva-crash-injuries-roadblock/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T10:52:00.000Z The full roadblock the Florida Highway Patrol had on Palm Beach Boulevard at Broadway Street in Alva has come down to the right lane, on a crash with injuries the state is still carrying open in the morning peak https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/royal-palm-park-tice-fishing-pier-rebuild-park-closed-november/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T10:40:00.000Z Work has started on the Royal Palm Park fishing pier in Tice, Lee County has now put the closure in writing on its own page, and a dollar figure has appeared for the first time https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-parkway-vincennes-del-prado-overnight-closures-signal-rewiring/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T10:20:00.000Z Cape Coral Parkway closes a leg of Vincennes Street overnight from nine on Tuesday, the second of eight intersections being rewired, with the other six queued for the week of 31 August https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/lee-county-two-new-boil-water-notices-entrada-crest-chandler-91-hours/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T08:50:00.000Z Lee County opened two more boil water notices at lunchtime on Monday, one of them the third main break in the Villas in four days, and the Chandler Avenue notice from Friday morning has now been open more than ninety hours https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-three-active-boil-water-areas-two-logged-monday/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T08:30:00.000Z Cape Coral is carrying three active boil water areas, two of them opened on Monday and one that has now stood since 18 August, while every area the city was working through on Friday has been cleared https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/invest-96l-seventy-percent-tropical-depression-likely-95l-falls-forty/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T07:25:00.000Z The National Hurricane Center now puts the eastern Atlantic disturbance at 70 percent and says a tropical depression is likely within days, while the Bermuda system it was tracking has slipped to 40 percent, and neither area is forecast toward Southwest Florida https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-springs-radio-tower-road-fire-ninety-five-per-cent-contained/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T06:20:00.000Z The larger Bonita Springs brush fire is ninety five per cent contained at seventy acres, and the smaller fire the two newsrooms could not agree on last night now reads the same way in both https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-nw-16th-terrace-roadway-settlement-geotechnical-borings/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T04:20:00.000Z Cape Coral has put a drilling rig into Northwest 16th Terrace to find out why the road and a driveway on it are sinking, and until it reports back the city has told the homeowners not to drive on their own concrete https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-springs-radio-tower-road-fire-eighty-per-cent-contained/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T02:10:00.000Z The larger Bonita Springs brush fire is now eighty per cent contained at seventy acres, the first containment figure tonight that two newsrooms report the same way, while the two differ on the smaller fire https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-southwest-third-terrace-affordable-housing-flooding-review/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T01:20:00.000Z Neighbours on Southwest Third Terrace in Cape Coral say their street already floods after heavy rain, and they are asking what a proposed affordable housing development with a lake and two four storey buildings will do to it once the city finishes reviewing the plans https://moneyandworld.com/small-business/product-sunset/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z The revenue was the cheap part https://moneyandworld.com/personal-finance/social-security-trust-fund-depletion/ Money & World en 2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z Four funds, four clocks, and the deadline that arrives first https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-springs-brush-fires-seventy-acres-sixty-five-per-cent-contained/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T23:55:00.000Z The larger of the two brush fires near Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs is now seventy acres and sixty five per cent contained, and the Florida Forest Service has crews and dozers still working both of them https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/ice-arrests-detentions-lee-county-i-75-traffic-delays/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T23:40:00.000Z Immigration agents made arrests and detentions across Lee County on Monday morning, drivers reported repeated stops along Interstate 75, and the agency says it will not discuss the operation https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/cape-coral-e-bike-theft-hundred-dollar-reward-arrest/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T23:25:00.000Z Cape Coral police say a man took an e-bike from outside a Del Prado Boulevard business, came back while officers were still there to claim the hundred dollar reward for finding it, and was arrested at his home https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/breeze-airways-fort-myers-albany-suspended-september-returns-october/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T21:55:00.000Z Breeze Airways is pausing its Fort Myers to Albany route for the whole of September, blaming fuel costs, and says the flights come back in October https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-springs-two-brush-fires-sixty-acres-fifteen-per-cent-contained/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T21:50:00.000Z There are now two brush fires near Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs, and the Florida Forest Service puts the larger one at sixty acres and fifteen per cent contained https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/hibiscus-lane-naples-trailer-home-fire-one-person-died-ccso/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T21:45:00.000Z One person died in the trailer home fire on Hibiscus Lane in Naples, the Collier County Sheriff's Office has now confirmed, and investigators still have not said what started it https://moneyandworld.com/briefs/bonita-beach-road-tower-road-brush-fire-five-acres-zero-contained/ Money & World en 2026-08-24T20:50:00.000Z A brush fire near Bonita Beach Road and Tower Road in Bonita Springs has grown from half an acre to an estimated five and is nought per cent contained, and the fire district is asking people to stay away from it