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Cape Coral opened a third boil water area on Monday morning, at 608 SE 1st Avenue, and this time the city's own record puts the break and the log entry seventeen seconds apart rather than hours

The city logged a water main break at 608 SE 1st Avenue at 11.22 on Monday morning, opening a third precautionary boil water area. The SW 3rd Avenue and SE 30th Terrace notices are both still open. Collier and Fort Myers show none.

August 31, 2026 · From the document · City of Cape Coral Utilities, precautionary boil water notice, 608 SE 1st Avenue, water main break logged 31 August 2026, GIS record 2858

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A judge found probable cause on all four charges against Whycliff Longin at his first appearance, and the Lee County Sheriff's Office has since published a charge list of its own that settles the disagreement this desk left open three days ago

Cape Coral opened a third boil water area on Monday morning, at 608 SE 1st Avenue, and this time the city's own record puts the break and the log entry seventeen seconds apart rather than hours

The Hurricane Center started advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Five in the northern Gulf on Monday morning, with a Tropical Storm Warning up for the upper Texas and southwestern Louisiana coast and nothing at all posted for Florida

Marco Island Fire Rescue has two firefighters and its brush truck working a Texas wildfire that federal records put at 85,303 acres and 31 per cent contained, on a deployment expected to run at least two weeks

Buckingham Presbyterian Church burned on Friday night with flames already through the roof when the first crews reached it, and by Sunday the congregation was holding its service outdoors

A juvenile black bear walked into Naples Zoo on Saturday afternoon and the zoo cleared its visitors and staff out, and two days on neither the zoo nor the state has said publicly how it ended

Lee County deputies worked a reported shooting at a home on Welborn Road in North Fort Myers overnight, and the Sheriff's Office says one person was treated for minor injuries

Northbound I-75 shuts over Collier Boulevard from 11 tonight until six on Tuesday morning while crews pour the new bridge deck, with every through driver sent off at exit 101 and straight back on

Cape Coral has a second boil water area open at 405 SE 30th Terrace, logged on Saturday afternoon but recording the service cut at seven that morning, and the SW 3rd Avenue notice is now into its fourth day

Cape Coral has opened a new precautionary boil water notice at 4612 SW 3rd Avenue after a water main break on Friday morning, one day after the city cleared its last four

The Lee County sheriff says a 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the death of the woman found inside a home on Haviland Avenue in Lehigh Acres, the investigation this desk covered on Thursday when nobody would say what it was about

A woman and her dog were found dead in a swimming pool at a home on Colonial Walk North in Estero, and the two Southwest Florida newsrooms carrying the story do not agree on which night it happened

The relocation pages price Fort Myers housing below the national average. The federal statistic prices it a quarter above.

NeoGenomics, the Fort Myers cancer diagnostics company, says Medicare will now cover its RaDaR ST test for immunotherapy monitoring, a third covered indication

Southwest Florida International handled 680,168 passengers in July, down 5.7 percent, but the airport's year to date is within 2,594 passengers of last year

The Florida Highway Patrol has reopened the right lane of Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 52 on Alligator Alley in Collier County, thirteen minutes after a crash shut it, and a second crash a mile ahead is still open

A capsized boat sighted about ten miles off Marco Island on Thursday afternoon pulled marine units from four Collier County agencies out to it after an aircraft crew reported what looked like a person on or near the hull, and the crews found the vessel abandoned with no emergency taking place

A van caught fire on the Bonita Beach Road on-ramp to Interstate 75 southbound early on Thursday afternoon, and the ramp was shut while Bonita Springs fire crews put it out, with nobody hurt and the road recorded as clear

The Florida Highway Patrol has a crash with injuries open on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 108 in Naples with the right lane recorded as blocked, and the entry was still carrying that status more than forty minutes after the call

A 19 year old student at Coronado High School in Fort Myers has been arrested and accused of bringing a firearm onto campus, after deputies say a backpack check turned up a holster and a police dog alerted on his car

The eastern Atlantic system this desk has tracked all week as Invest 96L was named Tropical Storm Dolly at 11 o'clock this morning, and the National Hurricane Center's very first advisory on it already forecasts the storm to fall apart into a tropical wave before it ever reaches the Leeward Islands

Reenacted without a word changed, and no longer saying the same thing

Cape Coral has the power off at Veterans Park while the Parks and Recreation Department finishes a round of upgrades, which leaves the lights and the restrooms out, and the city is asking people who use the park after dark to go somewhere else for now

The Florida Highway Patrol has now published an account of how Wednesday night's fatal crash on Cemetery Road happened, saying a Nissan crossed the centre line into the direct path of an oncoming Chevrolet and the two vehicles met head-on

Cape Coral has rescinded all four of its remaining precautionary boil water notices inside thirteen minutes this morning, taking the city's active layer to zero for the first time in at least ten days

The Lee County Sheriff's Office has an active investigation running at 30th Street Southwest and Haviland Avenue in Lehigh Acres this morning, and it says there is no threat to the public

The state water district has put a 34,336 dollar civil penalty on the developer of the Seven Islands project in Cape Coral over mangroves cleared without permits, and the district says the money has not been paid yet

The Florida Highway Patrol has the left lane of Interstate 75 southbound blocked at mile marker 112 in Naples after a crash logged during the morning peak, and the entry is still open on the state board

A crash on the ramp off Interstate 75 southbound at the Immokalee Road interchange in Naples was logged with a roadblock during the morning peak, and the state board records the roadway as clear

Cape Coral has cut its fire assessment for the year that starts in October, held the trash charge flat and raised the lot mowing rate, and the three charges that land on a house fall by about eighteen dollars

Dozens of people stood outside the Luminary Hotel in downtown Fort Myers for about three hours on Wednesday night over reported immigration enforcement activity across Lee County, and the hotel put out a statement about it

Another measles case has turned up in Collier County, this one in Immokalee, in a county where the kindergarten vaccination rate sits six points under the level that stops the disease spreading

Fort Myers police are asking for the public's help finding a 17 year old girl and her six month old daughter, last seen on Tuesday on Michigan Avenue

One person died and five more were trauma alerted in a two vehicle crash at Cemetery Road and Dana Road, and Gulf Coast News now reports the road has reopened after the Lee County Sheriff's Office had it closed and traffic rerouted onto Skates Circle

Sanibel's planning commission has cleared the storm-damaged station at 1015 Periwinkle Way to reopen with a convenience store, and the city's own staff report shows the fuel pumps were never the part that needed a hearing

Sanibel has put the first stretch of its hurricane replanting in the ground along Causeway Boulevard, and the city says the species were chosen because they were the ones left standing after Ian and Milton

A house on Sixth Street West in Lehigh Acres has been standing burned and open since January, and Lee County says the owner has not pulled a permit to fix it or take it down and has not answered Code Enforcement at all

Immigration agents detained a man outside a Lee Health facility in Fort Myers on Wednesday afternoon, and residents reported seeing agents at several other places across Lee County through the day

A Cape Coral man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for phoning in threats to kill people in three states, and the court went above the guideline range after counting roughly forty prior convictions

A North Naples sexual battery from 1999 has produced an arrest after Collier County detectives turned to forensic genetic genealogy and the FBI collected a fork an Arizona restaurant diner left behind

Cape Coral has set its stormwater fee at 163 dollars a unit for the year that starts in October, a seven dollar rise that is the fifth in a row, and the city puts the extra money into drainage, canals and flood prevention work

The Florida Highway Patrol reclassified its call on Cemetery Road at Dana Road outside Fort Myers as a fatality and stamped its own dispatch entry clear at 7.34 p.m., but the Lee County Sheriff's Office says the roads are still closed and traffic is being rerouted

The Florida Highway Patrol has stamped its crash involving one of its own patrol cars on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 131 in Fort Myers cleared at 6.55 p.m., forty seven minutes after it was logged, and the roadblock column never moved off unknown

Immigration agents carried out raids across Southwest Florida neighbourhoods on Wednesday, including one at Madison Avenue in Fort Myers before eight in the morning, and the agency has not said how many people it took into custody

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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