Lee County
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.
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.
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.
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afternoon, though the same record's hour fields put the service cut at 7 a.m. Neither of the two open areas has been rescinded.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cape Coral rescinded the precautionary boil water notice around 1019 SE 43rd Street at 9.34 this morning, seven days and twenty-two hours after the 18 August main break.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cape Coral's official precautionary boil water map showed three areas still active early Tuesday, none of them rescinded.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Set at the county level, and it lands on every parcel in Cape Coral.
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The company says the MolDX programme has extended coverage of its RaDaR ST assay to monitoring response to immune-checkpoint therapy in late-stage solid tumours. Two further submissions remain pending.
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The Lee County Port Authority reports 680,168 passengers at RSW in July against 720,973 a year earlier. Seven months in, 2026 is running 0.04 percent behind 2025, a gap of 2,594 passengers out of 7.1 million.
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The patrol says a Nissan Kicks crossed the centre line on Cemetery Road at about 6.40 p.m. and met an eastbound Chevrolet Suburban head-on. The Nissan driver died at the scene. The investigation is open and nobody has been named.
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