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Cape Coral adds SW 53rd Lane boil-water areas and lifts two earlier notices
City records list active drinking-water advisories near 1519 SW 53rd Lane and 3120 SE 6th Avenue. Savona Parkway West and SE 8th Avenue notices are lifted.
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Cape Coral
Cape Coral lists boil-water notices for Savona Parkway West, SE 8th Avenue and SE 6th Avenue
Active precautionary advisories cover areas near three water-main breaks. Check the city map to see whether your address is affected.
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Cape Coral
Cape Coral lifts boil-water notice near 3744 SE 1st Avenue
The city moved the SE 1st Avenue advisory area into its rescinded-notice map Thursday. The change applies only to that mapped area.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral adds a boil water notice near SE 1st Avenue after a water main break
The city lists an active precautionary advisory area near 3744 SE 1st Avenue. Affected customers should boil water for consumption or use bottled water.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lists two southwest boil water areas and lifts notices at two southeast locations
Precautionary notices remain active near SW 53rd Terrace and SW 49th Lane. The city has rescinded notices near SE 14th Street and SE Santa Barbara Place.
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Cape Coral · Weather
Flood advisory for Cape Coral, Iona and Punta Rassa expires
The National Weather Service flood advisory for southwestern Lee County expired at 9:45 p.m. after 3 to 4 inches of rain fell.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral adds a boil water area near Santa Barbara Place; SE 14th Street remains active
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 2906 SE Santa Barbara Place. An area near 1123 SE 14th Street also remains active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral opens a precautionary boil water area near 1123 SE 14th Street after a water main break
Cape Coral lists an active precautionary boil water area near 1123 SE 14th Street after a water main break. The city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 410 Del Prado Boulevard North
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 410 Del Prado Boulevard North at 8:48 a.m. Thursday. The city now lists no active notice areas.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lifts boil-water notices near SE 12th Avenue and SW 8th Place while one Del Prado area remains active
Cape Coral has rescinded precautionary boil-water notices near 3722 SE 12th Avenue and 5004 SW 8th Place. A separate Del Prado Boulevard area remains active.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lifts two boil-water notices at 801 Cape Coral Parkway West
Cape Coral rescinded two precautionary boil-water notices at 801 Cape Coral Parkway West on Monday morning.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lists active boil-water areas near Del Prado Boulevard and SW 8th Place
Cape Coral's active-notice map lists precautionary boil-water areas near 410 Del Prado Boulevard North and 5004 SW 8th Place after water main breaks.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lifts two boil-water notices at 801 Cape Coral Parkway West
Cape Coral rescinded two precautionary boil-water notices at 801 Cape Coral Parkway West on Monday morning.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lists three active boil-water areas after two new map entries appeared Sunday
Cape Coral's live map lists three active precautionary boil-water areas, including entries near 410 Del Prado Boulevard North and 5004 SW 8th Place.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lifts two boil-water notices at 801 Cape Coral Parkway West
Cape Coral rescinded two precautionary boil-water notices at 801 Cape Coral Parkway West on Monday morning.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral Parkway properties may lose water pressure for 12 hours Saturday
Cape Coral says properties along Cape Coral Parkway between Palm Tree and Chiquita may have little to no water pressure from about 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
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Cape Coral · Water
Cape Coral lists an active boil-water advisory near SE 12th Avenue after a water main break
Cape Coral's active-notice map lists a precautionary boil-water advisory area near 3722 SE 12th Ave. after a water main break.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil-water notice at 3308 Southeast Santa Barbara Place
Cape Coral has rescinded the boil-water notice at 3308 Southeast Santa Barbara Place. The advisory at 1901 Diplomat Parkway East remains active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a precautionary boil water notice near 519 SE 22nd Terrace after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 519 SE 22nd Terrace after a water main break. The mapped notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral lifts its last active boil water notice near 3824 SW 3rd Avenue
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 3824 SW 3rd Avenue at 10:34 a.m. Sunday. The city now lists no active boil water areas.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral opens a boil water area near 3824 SW 3rd Avenue after a water main break
Cape Coral lists an active precautionary boil water area near 3824 SW 3rd Avenue after a water main break. The city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral opens a boil water area near 224 NE 17th Avenue after a water main break
Cape Coral lists an active precautionary boil water area near 224 NE 17th Avenue after a water main break. The city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral opens a boil water area after a main break near 423 SW 52nd Street
Cape Coral lists an active precautionary boil water area near 423 SW 52nd Street after a water main break. The city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts four boil water notices and clears its active map
Cape Coral rescinded four precautionary boil water notices Wednesday morning. The city water notice map now lists no active areas.
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Cape Coral · Transportation
Cape Coral starts replacing 30 mph neighborhood signs with 25 mph signs
Cape Coral crews are replacing 30 mph signs with 25 mph signs on applicable residential roads. Police will issue warnings during installation.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral firefighters rescue stranded drivers from flooded roadway after extinguishing vehicle fire
Cape Coral firefighters helped motorists whose vehicles became disabled on a flooded roadway Monday after crews extinguished a separate vehicle fire on NE 31st Terrace.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police say a citywide impaired-driving operation produced 71 citations and three DUI arrests
Cape Coral police say officers made 93 traffic stops, issued 71 citations and recorded three DUI arrests during a citywide impaired-driving operation Friday night.
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Cape Coral · Transportation
Cape Coral closes SW 20th Avenue north of Trafalgar Parkway through Tuesday, with detours on SW 19th Place and Chiquita Boulevard
Cape Coral says SW 20th Avenue north of Trafalgar Parkway is closed September 21 and 22. Southbound traffic is being sent to SW 19th Place, while northbound traffic is being routed along Trafalgar Parkway to Chiquita Boulevard.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a precautionary boil water notice near 2206 SW 14th Avenue after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 2206 SW 14th Avenue after a water main break. The mapped notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a third active boil water notice near 621 SW 32nd Terrace after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 621 SW 32nd Terrace after a water main break. The city now has three active notice areas.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Florida wildlife officers are investigating the reported shooting of a hawk in Cape Coral
Florida wildlife officers are investigating the reported shooting of a hawk on NE 11th Lane in Cape Coral. The bird was taken to a wildlife clinic.
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Cape Coral · Cost of living
Cape Coral’s $1,998 rent tells a different story from the metro average
Cape Coral has no official citywide cost index. The federal metro price level was 102.3 in 2024, but city median gross rent was $1,998, 6.8 percent above Lee County. Owners face a different equation shaped by mortgage status, property taxes, utility connections and annual city assessments.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a precautionary boil water notice near 325 SE 30th Street after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 325 SE 30th Street after a water main break. The mapped notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Weather
Flood advisory for Cape Coral and Punta Rassa expires after heavy rain
The National Weather Service flood advisory for southwestern Lee County expired at 6:15 p.m. after warning of minor flooding and water over roads.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts two boil water notices; one city advisory remains active
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notices near 419 SW 52nd Street and 2007 SE 13th Street late Saturday morning. One separate city notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Weather
The northwest Lee County storm statement expired at 6 p.m.
The National Weather Service Special Weather Statement for Cape Coral and northwest Lee County expired at 6 p.m. It is no longer on the active alert feed.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a precautionary boil water notice near 1215 SE 16th Street after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 1215 SE 16th Street after a water main break. The mapped notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 2614 SW Santa Barbara Place; two city notices remain
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 2614 SW Santa Barbara Place at 7:40 a.m. Friday. Two separate city notices remain active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opens third active boil water area after main break at 2007 SE 13th Street
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 2007 SE 13th Street after a water main break. The notice is active and the city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opens second active boil water area after main break at 419 SW 52nd Street
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 419 SW 52nd Street after a water main break. The notice is active and the city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts boil water notices near SE 5th Street and SE 27th Terrace; one city notice remains
Cape Coral rescinded precautionary boil water notices near 1923 SE 5th Street and 129 SE 27th Terrace Thursday morning. One separate city notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 2735 Santa Barbara Boulevard; three notices remain active
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 2735 Santa Barbara Boulevard at 7:57 a.m. Wednesday. Three separate city notices remain active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police ask residents to identify a man after vehicle burglaries near Country Club Boulevard
Cape Coral police are asking the public to identify a man they say burglarized multiple vehicles on September 13 and 14. Gulf Coast News reports the incidents occurred near Country Club Boulevard.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
A barge crane hit power lines and cut electricity to 170 Cape Coral customers Tuesday morning
A barge crane contacted power lines near SW 1st Place in Cape Coral on Tuesday morning, Gulf Coast News reported. The reported outage affected 170 customers, and no injuries were reported.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral adds boil water areas near SW Santa Barbara Place and SE 27th Terrace
Cape Coral lists two additional precautionary boil water areas after water main breaks, including a new area near 2614 SW Santa Barbara Place. Four city areas are active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a boil water notice near 1923 SE 5th Street after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 1923 SE 5th Street after a water main break. Two city areas are active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police say the child hospitalized after a drowning call is stable
Cape Coral police told two local newsrooms that the child taken to a hospital Sunday after being found in water behind a home is stable.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
A child was hospitalized after being found in water behind a Cape Coral home
Cape Coral police say a child was found in water behind a home on Hancock Bridge Parkway and taken to a hospital; the child's condition has not been released.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 607 SE 46th Terrace; one city area remains active
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 607 SE 46th Terrace at 10:19 a.m. Sunday. One separate city notice remains active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral posts a boil water notice near 2735 Santa Barbara Boulevard after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 2735 Santa Barbara Boulevard after a water main break. Two city areas are active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts three boil water notices near Country Club Boulevard, SW 51st Terrace and SE 16th Terrace
Cape Coral rescinded three precautionary boil water notices Saturday afternoon. One city notice near 607 SE 46th Terrace remains active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Daniel Eric Colon dies after Cape Coral police shooting; department says recovered weapon was an Airsoft pistol
Cape Coral police identified the man shot by officers as Daniel Eric Colon and said the recovered weapon was a CO2 Airsoft pistol. WINK News reports police confirmed Colon died.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral adds boil water areas near SE 16th Terrace and SE 46th Terrace, bringing the active total to four
Cape Coral lists two newly uncovered precautionary boil water areas near 413 SE 16th Terrace and 607 SE 46th Terrace after water main breaks. Four city areas are active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 142 SE 15th Place; four newer areas remain active
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 142 SE 15th Place Friday morning. Four newer city notice areas remain active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opens two boil water areas near Country Club Boulevard and SW 51st Terrace
Cape Coral lists two new precautionary boil water areas near 906 Country Club Boulevard and 801 SW 51st Terrace after water main breaks. Three city areas are active after two older notices were lifted.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police say two officers shot and wounded a man near NE 15th Place after a reported disturbance
Cape Coral police say two officers shot and wounded a 43-year-old man near NE 15th Place Wednesday evening. Police reported no injuries to law enforcement personnel.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
The landspout threat near Cape Coral and Iona expired at 5:45 p.m.
A National Weather Service Special Weather Statement for northwestern Lee County expired at 5:45 p.m. Radar had indicated nearly stationary strong thunderstorms capable of landspouts and wind gusts up to 50 mph.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opens a third boil water area near 142 SE 15th Place after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a third active precautionary boil water area near 142 SE 15th Place after a water main break. The city map carries no rescission date.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts boil water notices near SE 1st Avenue and SW 52nd Street; two newer areas remain active
Cape Coral rescinded precautionary boil water notices near 612 SE 1st Avenue and 1221 SW 52nd Street. Two newer city advisory areas remain active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 715 SE 34th Street
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 715 SE 34th Street at 8:26 a.m. Thursday. The notice had been issued after a water main break.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near 1829 SE 21st Terrace
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice near 1829 SE 21st Terrace at 8:31 a.m. Thursday. The notice had been issued after a water main break.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the Country Club Boulevard and SW 11th Avenue boil water notices; two newer areas remain active
Cape Coral rescinded precautionary boil water notices near Country Club Boulevard and 4932 SW 11th Avenue. Two newer city advisory areas remain active.
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Cape Coral · Roads
Nicholas Parkway and Santa Barbara Boulevard reopen after a three vehicle crash involving a Cape Coral police vehicle
Florida Highway Patrol now marks Nicholas Parkway and Santa Barbara Boulevard clear after a three vehicle crash involving a Cape Coral police vehicle blocked the intersection Thursday evening.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opens a fourth boil water area after a main break near SW 52nd Street
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 1221 SW 52nd Street after a water main break. The notice is active and the city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opens a new boil water area near SE 1st Avenue after a water main break
Cape Coral lists a new precautionary boil water area near 612 SE 1st Avenue after a water main break. The notice is active and the city has not posted a rescission.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts six boil water notices Thursday morning, leaving two active areas
Cape Coral rescinded six precautionary boil water notices near SE 1st Avenue, SE Santa Barbara Place, SW 1st Avenue, SE 18th Terrace, Armada Court and NE 2nd Terrace. Two city areas remain active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral approves up to $500,000 to stabilize a sinking section of Northwest 16th Terrace
Cape Coral authorized an emergency purchase of up to $500,000 to stabilize a roadway depression on Northwest 16th Terrace that city documents say is still subsiding.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral put the SW 11th Avenue boil water area back on its active map under a new city record
Cape Coral restored the precautionary boil water area around 4932 SW 11th Avenue to its active map under a new record. The city still lists a water main break and no rescission date.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near SW 3rd Avenue after the city records a rescission Wednesday morning
Cape Coral moved the precautionary boil water area near 4612 SW 3rd Avenue to its rescinded list at 10:13 a.m. Wednesday. The notice is no longer active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral lifts the boil water notice near SE 30th Terrace after the city records a rescission Wednesday morning
Cape Coral moved the precautionary boil water area near 405 SE 30th Terrace to its rescinded list at 10:07 a.m. Wednesday. The notice is no longer active.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opened a 10th boil water area Wednesday morning after a water main break near Country Club Boulevard
Cape Coral added an active precautionary boil water area near Country Club Boulevard after a water main break. Ten city advisory areas are now open.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opened a ninth boil water area Wednesday morning after a water main break near SW 11th Avenue
Cape Coral added an active precautionary boil water area around 4932 SW 11th Avenue after a water main break. Nine city advisory areas are now open.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Southbound Country Club Boulevard is closed at the 3100 block in Cape Coral while utility crews repair a water main break
Cape Coral police closed the southbound lanes of Country Club Boulevard at the 3100 block while utility crews repair a water main break.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opened an eighth boil water area Tuesday after a water main break near NE 2nd Terrace
Cape Coral added an active precautionary boil water area around 2009 NE 2nd Terrace after a water main break. Eight city advisory areas are now open.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opened a seventh boil water area Tuesday morning after a water main break near Armada Court
Cape Coral added an active precautionary boil water area around 5832 Armada Court after a water main break. Seven city advisory areas are now open.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opened a sixth boil water area Tuesday morning after a water main break near SE 18th Terrace
Cape Coral added an active precautionary boil water area around 165 SE 18th Terrace after a water main break. Six city advisory areas are now open.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
Cape Coral opened two more boil water areas on Tuesday morning, around SE Santa Barbara Place and SW 1st Avenue, taking the city total to five
The city added active precautionary boil water areas around 2706 SE Santa Barbara Place and 4320 SW 1st Avenue after water main breaks. Five Cape Coral areas are now open.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
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.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
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
The city logged a water main break at 405 SE 30th Terrace on Saturday afternoon, though the same record's hour fields put the service cut at 7 a.m. Neither of the two open areas has been rescinded.
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Cape Coral · Utilities
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 city logged the break at 4612 SW 3rd Avenue at 10.07 a.m. Friday and cut service a few seconds later. No rescission has been posted. Because the break fell on a Friday, the city's own guidance suggests clearance may run past the weekend.
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Cape Coral · Local Government
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 city says a planned outage at Veterans Park, 4140 Coronado Parkway, has the lights and restrooms out while parks upgrades continue. The park is open by day with portable toilets, and no restoration date has been given.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral cleared its last four boil water areas between 8.56 and 9.09 this morning, about 30 acres at SE 8th Avenue, Santa Barbara Place, SW 16th Court and SE 39th Terrace. The city's active layer now holds no areas at all.
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Cape Coral · Development
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 South Florida Water Management District puts the civil penalties and investigation costs against Gulf Gateway Resort and Marina at 34,336.51 dollars. Shoreline stabilisation began on August 18, and replanting waits on approval of a restoration plan.
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Cape Coral · Local Government
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
Resolutions 222-26, 223-26 and 224-26 set the fiscal 2027 rolls. The fire assessment on an average single family home falls to 515.43 dollars from 540.17, residential solid waste holds at 384.25 dollars, and lot mowing rises in all four districts.
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Cape Coral · Courts
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
Paul Richard Lukas, 51, of Cape Coral was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in federal prison for interstate threats to injure. The court varied upward after weighing about forty prior adult convictions.
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Cape Coral · Local Government
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
Resolution 221-26 lifts the annual stormwater user fee from 156 dollars to 163 dollars for each equivalent residential unit, effective October 1. It is the final rate resolution of the budget cycle, and the fee is collected on the property tax bill.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice around 1019 SE 43rd Street at 9.34 this morning, seven days and twenty-two hours after the 18 August main break. Four areas covering about 30 acres stay active, one of them 0.3 miles away.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The Postal Service says pending safety issues have temporarily affected delivery to a few residents on the route and that affected mail and packages can be collected at the Cape Coral North branch. It has not said what the safety issues are.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral's active boil water layer has gone from three areas to five since 4.30 this morning. The additions are at 2728 SE 8th Avenue and 1822 Santa Barbara Place, both records dating from 17 August. The five cover about 37 acres.
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Cape Coral · Transportation
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
Gulf Coast News reports an overnight partial closure at Cape Coral Parkway and Vincennes Street from 9 p.m. Tuesday, detouring Vincennes traffic while the parkway stays open, as at Del Prado on Monday. Six more intersections are set for the week of 31 August.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral's boil water layer carries three areas with no rescission date. Two were logged on Monday, at 7.50 a.m. and 11.09. The third has stood since 18 August. The areas active on Friday have all been lifted.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral says the roadway in front of the property has settled noticeably and has hired a geotechnical consultant to drill borings into the street. It says it does not yet know the cause and cannot confirm any link to nearby construction.
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Cape Coral · Real Estate
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
Residents of Southwest Third Terrace told Gulf Coast News a proposed affordable housing project could worsen the flooding they already get after rainstorms. Cape Coral says the land is privately owned, a developer filed plans on 19 June, and the plan is under review.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Gulf Coast News reports Cape Coral police accuse a 50-year-old man of stealing a $1,500 e-bike from the 4500 block of Del Prado Boulevard South on Saturday, then collecting a $100 reward for producing it. Surveillance video and a witness identification led to the arrest.
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Cape Coral · Consumer Protection
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
Cape Coral City Council passed Ordinance 49-26 and Resolution 216-26 on Wednesday. The city can now fine unlicensed contractors through code enforcement, and a five dollar building permit fee funds a new licensing investigator.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral logged a third active boil water area on Friday afternoon, an 83 acre shape in the southeast that is the largest of the three now standing, and it went up hours after the city cleared three older notices
Cape Coral's own boil water map carries three active areas with no rescission date. The newest, at 4116 SE 19th Place, was logged at 3.10 p.m. Friday and covers about 83 acres. Three older notices were lifted early Friday.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
The State Attorney has put a date on the Cape Coral street race case: Anastasiya Zadorozhna will be sentenced on September 28, and the office has now told the story in its own voice
The State Attorney for the Twentieth Judicial Circuit said on August 21 that Anastasiya Zadorozhna, convicted of vehicular homicide in the 2024 Cape Coral street race that killed Alberto Almedo, will be sentenced on September 28.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Six Cape Coral licence plate reader cameras have been damaged in under a month, no one has been arrested, and the department has stopped giving interviews about it
Gulf Coast News, citing police reports it obtained, puts the running total of damaged Flock licence plate reader cameras in Cape Coral at six across three sites since July 30. Police say property crimes is investigating and will give no further interviews.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
A Lee County jury has convicted the second driver in the 2024 Cape Coral street race that killed Alberto Almedo, one day after the other driver pleaded no contest and was sent to jail
The News-Press reports a Lee County jury on August 19 convicted Anastasiya Zadorozhna, 29, of Cape Coral, of vehicular homicide in the July 19, 2024 death of Alberto Almedo, 52, rejecting a defence that an underlying health condition made her floor the pedal.
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Cape Coral · Elections
Two days after Cape Coral's mayor lost his primary he has missed a second public commitment, and it was left to two of his council colleagues to say on the record that he is on vacation
John Gunter, off the November ballot since Tuesday, missed a Thursday event in southwest Cape Coral after missing Wednesday's council meeting. Councilmembers Joe Kilraine and Laurie Lehmann told Gulf Coast News he is taking a break and that they do not know when he returns.
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Cape Coral · Local Government
Four months after turning the Cape Coral Rowing Club down over safety and neighbour objections, the city council has reversed itself and cleared the club to train at Tropicana Park in time for an October season
Council approved the club's request at its Wednesday night meeting, undoing an April denial that cited safety concerns, resident opposition and a push to send the club to Crystal Lake Park instead. Club president Saundra Weston says she did not see it coming.
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Cape Coral · Real Estate
A 130 unit assisted living and memory care community in Cape Coral has changed hands for 10.45 million dollars in an all cash deal, and the seller was a lender that was getting out of senior housing
National Healthcare Properties, a New York real estate investment trust, bought the Atrium at Liberty Park on Northeast 24th Avenue, the Business Observer reports, citing Lee County property records. The seller was American Lending Center.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Two years after a 52-year-old man was killed on Northeast Pine Island Road, one of the two drivers Cape Coral police say were racing at 125 mph has pleaded no contest and been sentenced to a year in the Lee County jail
The News-Press reports Chase Magruder, 23, entered an open no contest plea to vehicular homicide on August 18, and Lee Circuit Judge Robert Branning gave him a year in jail, two years of community control and three years of probation.
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Cape Coral · Elections
The mayor of the largest city in Lee County did not merely lose his primary, he finished third in it on 14.93 percent, and the two people who will contest the job in November between them took more than half the vote in a field of six
John Gunter, the mayor of Cape Coral since 2021, finished third in Tuesday's primary with 14.93 percent and is off the November ballot. Rick Erickson and Lisa Cohen-Adkinson advance to the general election.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
A water main break has closed the southbound lanes of Santa Barbara Boulevard at Southwest Eighth Street in Cape Coral, and the police department says repairs are underway with no estimate yet for when the road reopens
The Cape Coral Police Department says a water main break at Santa Barbara Boulevard and Southwest Eighth Street is closing the southbound lanes. Drivers are asked to take another route. Repairs are underway and no reopening time has been given.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
State gaming regulators and Cape Coral police pulled 60 slot machines out of a Santa Barbara Boulevard storefront that was operating as a bingo hall, and the commission says calling a machine bingo does not make it legal
The Florida Gaming Control Commission says it seized 60 illegal slot machines with Cape Coral police at Uptown Bingo, 2708 Santa Barbara Boulevard, Suite 108, in an action it calls Operation Going Downtown. Its release names nobody and states no arrests or charges.
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Cape Coral · Local Government
The playground at Kurt Donaldson Park in Cape Coral closes on Monday for a full equipment replacement and Lee County expects it to stay shut through the end of September, with the rest of the seventeen acre park staying open
WINK News reports, citing a Lee County press release, that the playground at 180 Hunter Blvd. closes August 17 for equipment replacement and should reopen at the end of September. The replacement adds shade, swings, slides and climbing components. Only the playground closes.
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Cape Coral · Housing
Cape Coral says a gated community on private wells and septic has to connect to city water and sewer, and the community's lawyer is pointing at a 2017 resolution that says its parcels were exempt
West Cape Estates runs on private wells and septic. The city says connection is mandatory and its agenda documents warn litigation may be needed. The community's attorney cites a 2017 resolution he says exempted its parcels.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral lifted its two oldest boil water notices within six minutes of each other on Wednesday morning, clearing 233 addresses, and one of them had run 116 hours, the longest single notice this site has tracked in the city
The city rescinded the 22.93 acre area at 3622 SE 5th Court at 7.23.52 a.m. and the 45.51 acre area at 2213 SE 10th Avenue at 7.29.32. They ran 116.6 and 47.3 hours. Four areas remain live elsewhere in the city.
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Cape Coral · Property Taxes
Cape Coral spent about 1.6 million dollars on its community events last year and took 229,000 dollars back, and the city has now frozen hiring on the staff who put them on
Gulf Coast News reported on Tuesday that Cape Coral is weighing the future of Red, White and Boom, Bike Night and the Holiday Boat Parade, and that the city puts last year's event cost at about 1.6 million dollars against 229,000 dollars of revenue.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral firefighters are handing out free reflective backpack flashers at all thirteen fire stations and headquarters, and one of the addresses circulating with the story sends parents to the wrong side of the city
The Cape Coral Fire Department is giving out free reflective backpack flashers for students at all thirteen fire stations and Fire Headquarters. Lee County classes started today.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
The man killed in the single vehicle crash that closed Veterans Parkway in Cape Coral on Sunday has been identified by his family and friends as Gio Valia, aged 23, two days after police released a death with no name attached to it
WINK News reports that the family and friends of the man who died on Veterans Parkway on Sunday identify him as Gio Valia, aged 23. Cape Coral police have not released a name and say the crash remains under investigation.
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Cape Coral · Real Estate
Neighbours on Lenox Court say the Cape Coral Yacht Club rebuild is shaking their houses, and the city says its monitors show vibration well below the threshold it is measuring against, which puts the whole argument on a document most homeowners have never seen
Residents on Lenox Court told Gulf Coast News that groundwork at the Cape Coral Yacht Club is rattling their homes and has damaged property. The city says monitors around the site record vibration well below the threshold it measures against.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral drew a second precautionary boil water area around the same Hancock Bridge Parkway address on Tuesday morning, and although the record is named for the parkway, only three of the 188 addresses inside it stand on it, the rest being the residential streets behind it, which takes the city to six live areas
A sixth boil water area appeared on the Cape Coral map on Tuesday morning, immediately west of the Hancock Bridge Parkway area live since Monday. It covers 188 active addresses, almost all on Southeast Van Loon Terrace and the streets around it in 33990.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The 4620 SE 5th Place shutdown, on the city's calendar since August 4, went active within a five minute window on Tuesday morning. It covers 243 addresses across twelve condominium communities in 33904. Cape Coral has five active areas.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The city rescinded the 42.83 acre area at 909 Cape Coral Parkway West at 7.15.59 a.m. and the 9.74 acre area next to it at 7.16.14. They ran 47.9 and 44.4 hours. Four areas are still live elsewhere in the city.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The Cape Coral Fire Department says the Southeast 47th Street gas leak has been mitigated and the evacuations rescinded. An excavator struck a natural gas line behind Merrick Seafood on Monday morning.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Two separate storms, two statements, both to 7.15 p.m. One covers Cape Coral and central Charlotte, the other southeastern Lee from Lehigh Acres to Estero. Both carry radar indicated gusts of 40 to 50 mph. Collier is in neither.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The 47.23 acre area at 1957 Diplomat Parkway East sat on Cape Coral's scheduled shutdown layer until Monday morning, set for August 12. It is now on the active boil water layer, and the city has published no explanation. Cape Coral has six active areas.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The city logged a main break at 428 Hancock Bridge Parkway at 10.22 on Monday and drew a 33.91 acre area around it. A second shape at 909 Cape Coral Parkway West also appeared. Cape Coral now has five active areas.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The Cape Coral Police Department reported a gas leak in the 1300 block of Southeast 47th Street and asked two blocks to evacuate as a precaution. The fire department says an excavator hit the line behind Merrick Seafood, and TECO is on scene.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The city logged the break at 2213 SE 10th Avenue at 8.13 on Monday morning. The shape covers 45.51 acres between about SE 21st Street and SE 24th Street, and is the largest of three areas Cape Coral now has active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Trees along Southwest Second Terrace caught fire after a lightning strike during Sunday's storm, and the Cape Coral Fire Department confirmed the cause. Neither the department nor the newsroom has reported an injury or a damaged home.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Gulf Coast News, updating its Sunday morning story at 6.49 p.m., reports that Veterans Parkway has reopened and carries an account from a Cape Coral witness who says she called 911 and performed CPR. Police have not stated a cause.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
WINK News reported at 6.40 a.m. Sunday that Cape Coral police describe the Veterans Parkway crash near Chiquita Boulevard as a one vehicle crash in which one person died. Nobody has been named, and the department says the circumstances remain under investigation.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The city logged the area at 7.22 a.m. Sunday, break address 909 Cape Coral Parkway West, cause water main break, no lift date. At 42.83 acres it is the largest area live on the map and covers the streets closed on Saturday.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral officers were investigating a crash on Veterans Parkway between Southwest 20th Avenue and Chiquita Boulevard at 3.49 a.m. Sunday, with both directions blocked. No injury information has been released.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
Cape Coral police closed southbound Skyline Boulevard from Southwest 47th Street to Cape Coral Parkway, and Southwest 47th Terrace from Skyline to Southwest 8th Place, while utilities crews repaired a main and flushed hydrants.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
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
The Lee County booking record shows Graham Freeman, 56, of Cape Coral booked Thursday on eleven counts filed by state agents: ten child pornography counts at 500,000 dollars of bond each, one animal cruelty count at 100,000. He remained in custody Saturday.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral has one boil water area live this morning, a 23 acre shape at 3622 SE 5th Court that went up on Friday morning and has not moved since, and it replaced a notice the city had carried at 1135 SE 13th Street for 94 hours
The city rescinded the 1135 SE 13th Street notice at 8.41 a.m. Friday after 94.5 hours, in the slowest 17 percent of its year. A 22.93 acre area at 3622 SE 5th Court went up two hours later and is still active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral cleared its last four boil water notices inside fourteen minutes this morning, every one of them faster than the city's own median, and then put a new area on the map at 1135 SE 13th Street
The city lifted the four Tuesday notices between 7.35 and 7.49 a.m., taking the map to zero. A new area at 1135 SE 13th Street appeared shortly after 9 a.m. and is the only one active.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral lifted three boil water notices inside eleven minutes on Wednesday morning, the first rescissions in almost three days, and the count of active areas fell from seven to four
The city cleared Estancia Lane, SE 25th Lane and SW 43rd Street at 10.36, 10.41 and 10.47 a.m. Estancia Lane had stood 97 hours, longer than 85 percent of the city's 2026 notices.
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Cape Coral · Taxes
Cape Coral council told staff the 80 percent parks fee increase is off the table, and the resolution that would raise those fees is still on Wednesday's agenda
Every council member declined the 80 percent parks and recreation fee option at Tuesday's budget workshop. Resolution 198-26, which the city's own agenda values at an additional $1.9 million from fees, is still listed under New Business.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Six coaches are out at Mariner High School, and the school has told families there was no hazing at the lock-in but there was a lack of supervision
An email the school sent to families on Tuesday puts two coaches on administrative leave, terminates four non-district assistant coaches, and says students face discipline. The school says there was no hazing but a lack of supervision. Doug Faasse is interim head coach.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral logged a fourth boil water notice on Tuesday afternoon, and the new area on its own is as large as everything the city had under notice on Sunday
The city logged a fourth notice on Tuesday at 1.50 p.m. covering 1525 SW 52nd Lane. Seven areas are now active, a record, and the new one alone is as large as the city's whole boil water footprint on Sunday.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral logged three new boil water notices on Tuesday and now has six active areas, double the most this site has recorded, and nothing has come off the map since Sunday
The city added notices at 1831 Embers Parkway West, 1437 SE 21st Street and 727 SW 56th Street between 8.38 a.m. and 11.57 a.m. Six areas are active, covering about 48 acres. No notice has been rescinded in 47 hours.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral Police have joined the Mariner High School football investigation, and the Lee County district has now named the head coach it placed on leave
Cape Coral Police confirmed to WINK News that a related incident was reported and is under investigation. The district identified head coach Tyran Jones as the employee on administrative leave, and says it will brief the team before releasing a statement.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral is back to three active boil water areas, and the gap between the interruption and the notice has roughly doubled on the newest one
The city added a precautionary notice covering 149 SE 25th Lane at 7.16 a.m. Monday, against an interruption its own fields date to 8 a.m. Sunday. That is a lag of twenty three hours.
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Cape Coral · Property Taxes
The average Cape Coral single family taxable value falls 13.64 percent in the city's proposed 2027 budget, the only decline in the twelve years its own table covers
Cape Coral's 333 page proposed budget, posted July 23, puts average single family taxable value at 234,395 dollars against 271,405 now, with property already on the roll down 744 million dollars.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Mariner High School's head football coach is on administrative leave while the Lee County district investigates what it calls a team building incident
A district spokesperson confirmed the Cape Coral school's head football coach was suspended and placed on administrative leave. The board chair says an investigation began immediately. No details of the incident have been released.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral lifted the Fairmont Cove Court boil water notice at 1.07 on Sunday afternoon, after seventy five hours, and two areas are still under one
The city rescinded the notice covering 2623 Fairmont Cove Court, which had run since Thursday morning. Two areas remain active, on Estancia Lane and SW 43rd Street, covering about thirteen acres.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral logged a third active boil water notice at 6.52 on Sunday morning, and the city's own archive shows these notices run longer than this site has been saying
The city added a precautionary notice covering 213 SW 43rd Street on Sunday morning, against an interruption it dates to 7 p.m. Saturday. Three areas are now active. The archive puts the median notice at forty nine hours.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral logged a new boil water notice on Estancia Lane on Saturday morning and is back to two active areas
The city added a precautionary notice covering 3168 Estancia Lane at 9:29 a.m. Saturday, against a service interruption it dates to 11 p.m. Friday. The Fairmont Cove Court area is still active and has now stood about forty nine hours.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police now put the number of licence plate reader cameras cut down at one intersection at four, twice the number first reported
Police say four Flock cameras were damaged at Diplomat Parkway East and Santa Barbara Boulevard, not the two a resident found on Thursday. The department has still published nothing about the incident on its own newsroom.
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Cape Coral · Public Finances
Cape Coral switches its school zone speed cameras back on for August 11, and the statute splits each $100 violation five ways before the city keeps $60
The Cape Coral Police Department says RedSpeed cameras in sixteen school zones resume enforcement when classes start on August 11. Florida statute sets the penalty at $100 and divides it five ways.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral has lifted the SE 8th Avenue boil water notice and is down to one active area for the first time in three weeks
The city rescinded the 1724 SE 8th Avenue notice at 9:57 a.m. Friday, hours after this site reported it as the older of two active areas. One area is still under a notice, at 2623 Fairmont Cove Court.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral is down to two active boil water notices, and the older of them has now stood longer than any of the three the city cleared on Thursday
The city's own boil water map held two active records on Friday morning, at 1724 SE 8th Avenue and 2623 Fairmont Cove Court, after the entire July 28 cluster this site reported on Thursday was rescinded within seven minutes that morning.
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Cape Coral · Development
Cape Coral advances Bimini East, the 500 million dollar project where the city recovers 26.3 million dollars of the 45.2 million it spent assembling the land
Cape Coral agreed on July 29 to draft a developer agreement for Bimini East, a 500 million dollar mixed use project on about 34 acres, with a 45.75 million dollar tax increment rebate recommended to the CRA.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Two automated licence plate reader cameras were pulled down at a Cape Coral intersection, and police say they are investigating
A driver found two automated licence plate reader cameras on the ground at Diplomat Parkway East and Santa Barbara Boulevard on Thursday morning, cut at the base of their poles. Cape Coral police say they are investigating.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral's boil water map has turned over completely, with four notices now active and all three from Tuesday rescinded
The layer that feeds Cape Coral's public boil water map held four active records early Thursday, none of them rescinded, and not one of them is an area this site listed on July 28.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Three Cape Coral areas are still under precautionary boil water notices, and the city's own map has not rescinded any of them
Cape Coral's official precautionary boil water map showed three areas still active early Tuesday, none of them rescinded.
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Cape Coral · Public Finances
Cape Coral took down its 250-foot flag three weeks after raising it, and the $420,000 donor-funded project's recurring cost is the part the city still carries
Cape Coral removed the American flag from its 250-foot flagpole at Bernice Braden Park on Saturday, July 25, after staff found damage to an eyelet on the flag.
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Cape Coral · Development
Cape Coral approved two community development districts covering 1,327 acres, with petitioners estimating $292 million of infrastructure to be financed by assessments
Cape Coral City Council approved Ordinances 34-26 and 35-26 on July 22, establishing two community development districts under chapter 190 of the Florida Statutes.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police have identified remains found in a canal by kayakers in 2024 as Rose Marie Gayhart, missing since 1985, and the department says the case is now an open homicide investigation
The Cape Coral Police Department announced on Friday, July 24, that human remains found by kayakers in a canal in northeast Cape Coral in May 2024 have been identified as Rose Marie Gayhart, who was 23 when she disappeared in March 1985.
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Cape Coral · Public Safety
Cape Coral police say a bank-impersonation scheme rerouted victims' debit cards to Cape Coral addresses, and have arrested a 31-year-old on identity theft and grand theft charges
The Cape Coral Police Department announced on July 24 that its Economic Crimes Unit had arrested Santino Parreno Guerra, 31, after an investigation into what the agency describes as a sophisticated identity theft and grand theft scheme targeting bank customers across multiple states.
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Cape Coral · Government Spending
Cape Coral took down its new 250-foot flag three weeks after raising it, and the city says the replacement is already covered by the original contract
The City of Cape Coral has temporarily removed the flag from its 250-foot flagpole at the foot of the Cape Coral Bridge, three weeks after raising it on July 4.
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Cape Coral · Government Spending
Cape Coral posted the records it sent to Florida DOGE, including a purchase order analysis covering three fiscal years
Cape Coral has published on its own website the full set of records it handed to the state's Department of Governmental Efficiency, organized item by item against the state's request letter.
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Cape Coral · Taxes
Cape Coral sets its 2027 property tax ceiling at 5.1988 mills, the rolled-back rate under the city's own resolution
Cape Coral City Council voted 7-1 on July 22 to advertise a maximum property tax rate of 5.1988 mills for fiscal 2027, the number that caps what the August TRIM notice can show.
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Cape Coral · Taxes
Cape Coral's proposed 2027 budget holds the tax rate flat and raises water bills 11 percent
Cape Coral's proposed fiscal 2027 budget keeps the operating property tax rate at 5.1471 mills, the same rate as this year, while raising water and sewer rates 11 percent and adding smaller increases for stormwater and trash.
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Cape Coral · Real Estate
Cape Coral keeps growing fast, even as its home prices cool
Cape Coral's population reached an estimated 233,025 in 2024, up 20.1 percent since the 2020 Census and far above the national pace, while Redfin put the median sale price near $360,000 in the spring, down about 2 percent from a year earlier.
Lee County
Set at the county level, and it lands on every parcel in Cape Coral.
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Lehigh Acres, Bonita Springs and Estero return to a 6:30 a.m. trash set-out time October 26
Lee County ends its 5 a.m. summer trash set-out requirement October 26 for unincorporated areas, Bonita Springs, Estero and Fort Myers Beach.
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Sanibel Fire adopts tentative rollback rate and $30.85m budget
Sanibel Fire and Rescue District adopted a tentative 1.3016-mill property tax rate and a $30,853,878 fiscal 2027 budget. The final hearing is September 21.
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Lee County school board adopts a $3.055 billion budget with a lower 5.271-mill property tax rate
The School Board of Lee County approved a $3.055 billion fiscal 2027 budget and cut its total property tax rate to 5.271 mills, down 0.048 mill from fiscal 2026.
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