Fort Myers
Darden plans to close the Bahama Breeze at 14701 South Tamiami Trail in May 2027 and reopen the property as Yard House in June. The company is retiring the Bahama Breeze brand.
The Highway Patrol listed a vehicle crash and westbound roadblock at Daniels Parkway and Goldenwood Drive shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday, then removed the incident from its active board by 6.08 a.m.
Gulf Coast News reports that a 52-year-old Fort Myers woman died after her car struck a pole and caught fire in a parking lot. FHP is investigating whether a medical episode preceded the crash.
The National Hurricane Center began advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Five in the Gulf on Monday morning. The Tropical Storm Warning runs from Port Bolivar, Texas, to the Vermilion/Cameron Parish Line, Louisiana. Southwest Florida has no watch or warning.
A second-alarm fire tore through the church on Buckingham Road late on Friday. Crews from two districts fought it, the cause is under investigation, and members worshipped outside on Sunday.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis puts the price level of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metro at 102.3 for 2024, or 2.3 percent above the national average, 55th of 387 metropolitan areas. Housing carries all of it at 125.1. Goods, utilities and other services all price below the national average.
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.
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.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office says a backpack check on Wednesday found a holster and an empty ammunition box, and a K9 then alerted on the student's car, where a Glock 17 was found. Christian Viard, 19, faces two charges.
The National Hurricane Center named Tropical Storm Dolly at 11 a.m., 1,555 miles east of the Leeward Islands with 40 mph winds. The same advisory forecasts it to degenerate into a tropical wave before reaching them. Nothing is in force in Collier or Lee.
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.
WINK News reports dozens of protesters gathered outside the Luminary Hotel in downtown Fort Myers on Wednesday night over reported ICE activity in Southwest Florida. The hotel said safety is its priority. No arrests were reported, and no ICE response appeared in the report.
Fort Myers police are asking the public to help find Wilbelys Lopez Candelario, 17, and her six month old daughter Marbelys, last seen on Tuesday at 3650 Michigan Avenue. Call 239-321-7700.
One person died and five were trauma alerted in a two vehicle crash at Cemetery Road and Dana Road. The sheriff closed the roads and rerouted traffic; Gulf Coast News now reports the road has reopened.
WINK News recorded immigration agents detaining a man outside a Lee Health facility on Wednesday afternoon, and reported agents at Palms of Monterrey and other Lee County locations. No agency has released a count.
The state dispatch board logged a crash with injuries at Cemetery Road and Dana Road in Lee County at 6.49 p.m., changed the entry to read Fatality, then stamped the call clear at 7.34 p.m. Somebody died. The sheriff's office says the roads remain closed.
The state dispatch board logged a patrol car crash on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 131 at 6.08 p.m., stamped a trooper on scene seven minutes later, and stamped the call cleared at 6.55 p.m. The roadblock status never moved off unknown.
Gulf Coast News reports that immigration agents raided Southwest Florida neighbourhoods on Wednesday and detained dozens, including at Madison Avenue in Fort Myers before eight in the morning. ICE has not released a total, and the outlet reports arrests may continue into Friday.
The splash pads at Lakes Regional Park on Gladiolus Drive opened to the public on August 5 and got their ribbon cutting this morning. The 2.6 million dollar rebuild after Hurricane Ian was paid for with Florida Division of Emergency Management money.
Lee Health says its UnitedHealthcare contracts end on 31 December, putting its hospitals and physicians out of network on 1 January 2027 for affected employer, individual and Medicare Advantage plans. Coverage runs normally until then, and patients are told not to cancel 2027 appointments yet.
Lee County schools have restarted the consolidation of Buckingham Exceptional Student Center into Royal Palm Exceptional Center, four months after pausing it under parent pressure. The district says the revised plan reflects family feedback and that the combined campus opens in August 2027.
Lee Health says messages promising a MyChart Medicare Kit or a Senior Health Package are not from the health system. Its own MyChart page warns that fraudulent emails, texts and calls may use the MyChart name or logo to look legitimate.
The 8 a.m. outlook cuts Invest 96L from 70 percent to 60 percent in both windows, softens depression formation from likely to could, and warns conditions turn less favorable by the weekend. Nothing is in force in Collier or Lee.
An eight-month WINK Investigates report names RV Doctor, Inc. of Fort Myers in two active Lee County civil cases and a run of customer complaints over unfinished work. The company denies wrongdoing and blames parts backorders and insurance limits.
The 2 a.m. outlook raises the 48-hour odds on Invest 96L to 70 percent and says a depression is likely within a day or two. The Bermuda system, Invest 95L, fell to near zero. Nothing is in force in Collier or Lee.
Lee County Utilities added three precautionary boil water notices on Tuesday and rescinded the Chandler Avenue notice at 9.57 that morning, leaving five areas active including one that starts Wednesday.
Florida announced 163 children recovered in a five day operation, with twelve credited to the Fort Myers region. Neither the Lee nor the Collier sheriff's office is among the thirteen named.
The Lee County Port Authority's proposed 2026-27 budget puts the average cost per enplaned passenger at $16.64 against $14.03 this year, and projects 11,324,210 passengers, 91,311 fewer than the current budget.
Lee County Utilities is carrying three open boil water notices. Two went up Monday, one on Entrada Drive North and McGregor Boulevard, the other on Woodland Boulevard and Crest Lane in the Villas. The Chandler Avenue notice from Friday is open at 91 hours.
The 2 a.m. outlook lifts the Cabo Verde system to 70 percent over seven days and says a tropical depression is likely within days. The Bermuda low fell to 40 percent. No watch, warning or advisory is in force anywhere in Florida.
Gulf Coast News reports ICE conducted arrests and detentions across Lee County on Monday morning, with drivers describing multiple stops on I-75 between the Alico Road and Corkscrew Road exits. ICE said DHS does not discuss ongoing or future operations.
Gulf Coast News reports Breeze will suspend RSW to Albany for September, citing high fuel costs, with the route returning in October and seats already on sale. It is one of several network cuts.
The 2 p.m. outlook lifts the low east-southeast of Bermuda from 30 to 50 percent over seven days and gives the eastern Atlantic low 60 percent. Nothing is forecast toward Florida, and no watch, warning or advisory is in force in Lee or Collier.
Fort Myers police say the Sunday night fire was set outside a home with people inside. Mario Cabrera, 24, was arrested at the scene and booked into the Lee County jail on a first-degree arson charge.
The Florida Highway Patrol logged a crash with injuries on I-75 southbound near the Alico Road interchange at 8.43 on Monday morning. By 9.24 its own board carried the words ROADWAY IS OPEN, and by lunchtime the entry had gone.
One of the two Villas boil water notices Lee County had left open since Friday was rescinded at 9.23 a.m. Sunday. The 8921 through 8949 Dorchester Street notice is lifted. The 2418 through 2457 Chandler Avenue notice is still in force.
The Florida Highway Patrol logged a crash with a roadblock on I-75 southbound at mile marker 141 at 11.21 Sunday morning, later noting the right lane blocked. Three readings of the dispatch board at 12.55 carried no Lee County entry.
Two main breaks in the Villas area, both logged Friday morning, are still unlifted on Lee County's water map: 8921 through 8949 Dorchester Street and 2418 through 2457 Chandler Avenue. The county lifted three other notices on Saturday and left these two open.
Gulf Coast News reported at 2 o'clock this morning that the Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a hit-and-run crash on Alico Road near Corkscrew Road, with southbound lanes blocked by emergency vehicles. The state dispatch board carried no Lee County entry at 2.28.
Faith Tenkley, 23, told Gulf Coast News she was flying her family's aeroplane from Fort Myers to Bimini when trouble began fifteen miles west of Boca Raton. Her account describes a twin engine aircraft, where the first reports described a single engine Piper.
The 8 p.m. outlook gives the Bermuda-area low 20 percent over two days and 30 percent over seven, and a wave leaving west Africa Monday 40 percent. There are no tropical cyclones in the Atlantic, and nothing threatens Southwest Florida.
The Boca Raton Airport Authority says a single engine plane that left Page Field in Fort Myers for the Bahamas declared an emergency en route and went into the Atlantic at about 10.25 this morning. The pilot, alone on board, was uninjured.
The state dispatch board has carried a crash with injuries on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 126 in Lee County since 12.16 this afternoon. A unit was recorded on scene at 1.04, and the roadblock field still reads unknown.
The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday that Jesse William Korff, 32, drew 24 years from Judge Sheri Polster Chappell for firearms, silencer and explosives offenses committed while on federal supervised release.
An administrative law judge has recommended that the Lee County School Board end the suspension of Three Oaks Middle School teacher Mariah Roller and award back pay. The recommendation is not binding, and the board issues the final order.
Kenya's Civil Aviation Authority says a helicopter with seven aboard crashed Wednesday in Samburu County. NBCUniversal leadership identified one of the dead as José Alberto Suárez, 55, who ran Telemundo Fort Myers-Naples, Telemundo 31 and Telemundo 49.
The state has replaced the entry type on this call, from a vehicle crash with injuries and a roadblock to a disabled vehicle in the roadway. Every stamp that identifies the call is unchanged, and the remarks still read that the left lane is blocked.
Gulf Coast News reports Lee County is weighing a $713,000 state request, $500,000 for dredging and $213,000 for ditch realignment, to reduce Orange River flooding risk. Commissioners review the draft legislative agenda at a Wednesday afternoon workshop.
With every participating precinct reporting in both counties, Jim Schwartzel took 26,140 votes, 29.14 percent of a ten candidate Republican field, ahead of Catalina Lauf on 19,714. Victor Arias won the Democratic nomination with 15,406 votes to Howard Sapp's 13,909.
Quality Fresca I, LLC filed for chapter 11 on August 4 in the Southern District of Florida. Its restructuring officer told the court the company is down to 38 restaurants, six of them in its Fort Myers and Naples group, with 603 employees.
City Council voted to advertise Ordinance 4107 for a September 21 hearing. The agenda confirms a 5 percent rise for fiscal 2027, rewrites the increases scheduled through 2031 and introduces an administrative fee whose amount the item does not state.
The Miami office issued at 12.28 a.m. and Tampa Bay at 12.52 a.m., both new products rather than extensions. Lee is written at a heat index of up to 112 and Collier at 105 to 112, on an 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. window.
The sheriff's office says its Major Crimes Unit arrested Gabriel Carlo Leon-Torres, 44, over the death of a man whose remains were found in March behind the Lee County Elections Center in Fort Myers. He is charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence.
The Forest Knoll Court cut and cap was rescinded at 9.46 a.m., 48 hours and 46 minutes after its incident stamp. One notice is now open, the fireline repair on San Carlos Boulevard stamped for 2 p.m.
Jail records show Ladavion King was released by the Lee County Jail on Thursday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says he is now in its custody, is still hospitalized, and will be booked once discharged. Nothing here affects the road.
The county's own map returns eight records, six of them lifted. The two with no lift date are a cut and cap on Forest Knoll Court open since Wednesday, and a fireline repair on San Carlos Boulevard stamped for 2 p.m. today.
The Tampa Bay office issued at 12.16 a.m. and the Miami office at 1.04 a.m., both new products. Lee and Charlotte are written at a heat index of up to 111, Collier at 105 to 110, on an 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. window.
WINK News reports the driver killed in Wednesday's crash east of Six Mile Crossing Boulevard was pronounced dead at the scene, and that investigators are working out whether a medical condition played a role. No name, age or home town released.
A vehicle fire is logged on Interstate 75 northbound at mile marker 140 in Fort Myers. The Florida Highway Patrol took the call at 5.13 and stamped a unit on scene at 5.21. Its remarks field is empty: no lane closure, no all clear.
Fort Myers police arrested Johnathan Andrew Decker, 41, on August 7 on two counts of fraud-impersonation, WINK News reports. Police say two people found their information had been used to seek vehicle financing they never applied for, and more victims were identified since.
The National Hurricane Center declared Cristobal post-tropical Thursday and issued its final advisory. AL92 sits at 80 percent, but strong upper level winds and dry air should end its development by late Friday. AL94 is at 30 percent. No watch covers Collier or Lee.
At 2.35 a.m. both Lee zones returned nothing active and the Tampa Bay office had drawn its only Florida heat advisory around Levy County. At 7.45 a.m. it extended that same advisory to cover Coastal and Inland Lee, index up to 109.
The city's own budget workshop presentation puts next year's general fund spending 9.2 million dollars above revenue at the rolled-back rate, and offers the council five combinations of millage, fire assessment and reserves to close it.
Gulf Coast News reports drivers hitting a plate installed during Edison Bridge joint work, one facing about $1,100 in tyres. FDOT says it is aware and points drivers to its claims office. Its own project page runs the joint work to Winter 2026.
Gulf Coast News reports the Florida Highway Patrol saying one person died in the afternoon crash at Six Mile Crossing Boulevard. It is the first count released, and the parkway is open again.
The Highway Patrol entry that went up at 3.09 p.m. as a crash with injuries, was reclassified a fatality, then took the westbound lanes out, now carries the remark roadway open. The type still reads Fatality.
The state board carried a roadblock at the intersection from 3.09 p.m. A reading at 3.55 p.m. replaces that with the westbound lanes of the parkway closed between Independence Circle and Six Mile Crossing Boulevard. Every other field is unchanged.
The entry went on the state dispatch board at 3.09 p.m. as a crash with injuries. A reading at 3.22 p.m. carries it reclassified as a fatality, and one at 3.30 p.m. adds a trooper arrival at 3.27 p.m., with the roadblock still listed.
The season's third named storm formed in the central subtropical Atlantic with 45 mph winds, moving east away from the United States and forecast to dissipate Thursday. The advisory lists hazards affecting land as none. The Cabo Verde system is now at 80 percent.
The Florida Department of Transportation says a double-lane closure is in effect on the northbound inside lanes and shoulder of the Edison Bridge for bridge joint work, and that it will then shift to the outside lanes. No end time is given.
Residents told WINK News that Sinceri Senior Living introduced a 1,000 dollar charge for each mandatory evacuation after taking over the Fort Myers community this year. Calusa Harbour says the fee covers transport, lodging and meals for independent living residents.
The county logged a 4 inch main break at 6953 Wittman Drive at 11.30 on Monday morning and drew a notice covering 6896 through 6943 Wittman Drive. It carries no lift date and is the only one on the county system.
The state counted 51 travel-associated dengue cases for 2026 and four acquired in Florida, all four in Hillsborough, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Lee County Mosquito Control is testing trapped specimens at its Buckingham laboratory.
Two forecast offices wrote separate products before three in the morning. Tampa Bay carries Coastal and Inland Lee at an index of up to 109, and Miami carries both Collier zones at 105 to 110.
The 8 p.m. outlook moves the west Africa system to 30 percent over 48 hours and 70 percent over seven days, and says a tropical depression will likely form later this week. Nothing is near Florida and no cyclones exist in the Atlantic.
Fort Myers police have confirmed an active death investigation on Black Eagle Lane, off Colonial Boulevard by Heritage Palms. WINK News says officers taped off part of the street. No cause has been released.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office says both directions of McGregor Boulevard are shut at Bay Drive because of downed power lines, with cars diverted. Gulf Coast News logged it at 2.58 p.m. No all clear had been posted by 5.03 p.m.
South Trail Fire Protection and Rescue Service District crews freed a driver trapped after a single vehicle rollover on Bald Cypress Circle on Saturday. Firefighters report the car struck a palm tree and rolled onto its side.
The 2 a.m. outlook gives two areas a 10 percent chance over seven days and the third 60 percent. That one sits south of the Cabo Verde Islands, off west Africa. No tropical cyclones exist in the Atlantic this morning.
A count run against the Lee County Utilities notice layer returns zero records without a lift date. The last three came off on Sunday morning. Cape Coral runs its own water system and its map still shows two live areas.
The state board logged the crash at 7.32 p.m. at mile marker 141 and never moved its remarks off unknown roadblock. A clearance stamp of 8.01 p.m. was on the row by 8.04, and two reads at 8.06 do not carry it.
The amendment would take the Colonial Boulevard project from 12.64 to 14.09 acres and add 93 apartments, against a 4 to 2 planning board vote to deny. County records already show the land replatted into seven tracts totalling 14.10 acres under one owner.
The Florida Department of Transportation closed the northbound outside lanes and shoulder of the Edison Bridge at 8 p.m. Friday and expects them back around noon Saturday. The inside lane stays open. Nightly closures here normally clear at 6 a.m., but the joints must cure.
The state board logged the crash at 5.32 a.m., its remarks read that the roadblock status is unknown, and four readings to 5.48 a.m. carry no clearance stamp. A second Lee entry went up at 5.46 a.m. on Interstate 75.
The Florida Highway Patrol logged the crash at 12.26 a.m. with the left and centre lanes blocked, and stamped it 01:01:13 with its remarks changed to no roadblock. The debris entry on Interstate 75 southbound at mile marker 131 is off the board too.
Fort Myers paid Card and Associates 66,237.50 dollars of a 356,180 dollar contract for City of Palms Park. A federal forfeiture complaint alleges the firm's founder put over 2.2 million dollars of Indiana public money toward a Marco Island house. He is not criminally charged.
Police say a driver fled an attempted traffic stop in the 5200 block of Ramsey Way and may have gone into a childcare centre. Staff and children were moved out, the search found nobody, and officers are still looking.
Handy Court and Harbour Yacht Court were cleared at 10.24 and 10.25 a.m. Handy Court had stood 64.4 hours, past the 24 to 48 hour window the utility itself publishes. The three notices still active are all scheduled shutdowns, two of them for hydrant replacement.
The county booking record shows Adam Jeffrey Vaughn, 37, booked at 1.33 a.m. Wednesday on seven counts, among them a written or electronic threat of a mass shooting or terrorism. Every count is recorded no bond, and he remained in custody Wednesday evening.
Gulf Coast News reported the vehicle fire on I-75 South between Palm Beach Boulevard and Luckett Road, and that the Florida Highway Patrol said the fire is out with no injuries. Traffic was affected. No time, lane count or cause is given.
The Florida Highway Patrol logged the crash at 4.17 p.m. and had the exit ramp marked as a roadblock at 4.32 p.m. Two reads of the board at 4.56 p.m. now read roadway open. This item has been updated.
The Tampa Bay Ruskin office issued the statement at 4.23 p.m. for a line of storms moving northwest at 10 mph. The hazard is radar indicated gusts of 40 to 50 mph with frequent cloud to ground lightning. It runs to 5 p.m.
The Fort Myers Fire Department took the call around 1 p.m., found a working fire with one person inside, and sent them to hospital with burns. Gulf Coast News reported it. The fire is out.
Gulf Coast News reported on Tuesday night that Monday morning's fire started accidentally. The Fort Myers Fire Department had left the cause open on Monday. The tenant was at work when it began.
City Council voted 5 to 2 to advertise 7.3112 mills, up from 6.5. The rate can still come down before the September hearings and by law cannot go up, which is why the notice number is not the bill.
Two records are new since this site read the map on Monday. The newer covers Beacon Street from Crystal Drive to Dover Avenue and starts at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The one emergency repair has stood 59.5 hours, longer than any notice took to clear.
The state incident board carries a brush or forest fire on I-75 northbound at mile marker 125, received 4.43 p.m., with the remark smoke in area use caution. No roadblock is claimed and no lane closure is recorded. No outlet has it yet.
A follow-up on Monday morning's fire. Flames went through the roof and into the attic, and heavy smoke damage through the rest of the house has left it a write-off. The Red Cross was called in for the displaced tenant.
Ladavion King was due at a motion hearing Monday afternoon. It was postponed for medical reasons and reset for August 26 at 8.30 a.m. He faces seven felony counts in Lee County. Nothing about the road is affected; the closure ended in July.
Southwest Airlines Flight 1243 left Southwest Florida International Monday and landed at Chicago Midway after 7 a.m. Central with both nose gear tires flat, the airline said. Mechanics changed them on the runway and towed the aircraft to the gate. No injuries were reported.
A passing driver reported the single storey home engulfed shortly after 10 a.m. Monday. Neighbouring homes were evacuated as a precaution and Hanson Street closed from Meadow Avenue to Central Avenue. Two cats were rescued and no injuries were reported.
The county map showed none active when this site checked on Saturday. It now carries an emergency notice on Handy Court dated Sunday evening, a scheduled shutdown covering forty eight units that began at 9 a.m. Monday, and a third due Tuesday.
The city layer had carried three areas coded active since Wednesday. It took its first edit in ninety hours at 10.13 on Sunday morning, and it now returns nothing at all. No rescission date was recorded.
Southbound Three Oaks Parkway traffic moves into the inside lane of the new roadway from Monday, weather permitting. The same county notice closes Old Fiddlesticks Boulevard at the Publix plaza and cuts Cody Lee Road to right in and right out.
The city's boil water layer moved at 10.13 on Sunday morning after sitting still since Wednesday, and the three areas coded active are now gone. The records were removed rather than marked rescinded, and the city website has been unreachable for six days.
The city's boil water layer has taken no edit since Wednesday afternoon, and its three areas are still coded active with no dates. The city website has been unreachable for five days, from this newsroom and from an outside network.
The last two came off at 9:26 and 9:45 a.m. Friday. Every one of the seven records the county layer holds now carries a rescind date, and the four most recent all cleared within forty five minutes of the two day mark.
The City of Fort Myers boil water layer still returns the same three areas it gained at 4:24 p.m. Wednesday, with identical shapes, blank names and null dates. The city's website has been unreachable across the whole period.
WINK News reported the arrest of a former bookkeeper at a Fort Myers demolition firm. The Lee County booking record shows two first degree felony counts, bonds of 10,000 and 25,000 dollars posted on Thursday, a release that afternoon and an August 31 hearing.
Lee County deputies stopped a car with a grappler device on Thursday morning. The booking record shows Ryan Corey Hillaker, 46, held on two counts, both with no bond set and a hearing listed for August 31.
Willian Rosa Do'Amaral, charged with second-degree murder over the fatal shooting of a woman on Winkler Avenue, was returned to court on Thursday for a pretrial detention hearing. Judge Robert J. Branning ordered him held in the Lee County Jail without bond.
The Fort Myers Fire Department brought a fire at a nearly hundred year old house under control on Thursday, July 30. The owner was evaluated at the scene and was not taken to hospital.
The Fort Myers City Council will vote August 3 on raising its property tax rate cap from 6.5 mills to 7.3112 mills, the highest rate it can reach without voting unanimously, alongside a higher fire fee cap and a bond issue.
A supplemental weather radar mounted on the Lee County Public Safety Center in Fort Myers is expected to be operational within days, WFLX reported on Wednesday evening, July 29.
The feature layer that the City of Fort Myers publishes its boil water notice areas from now holds three areas, each coded Active.
The Fort Myers Police Department has released the outcome of the Maravilla Avenue scene it worked on Wednesday morning, July 29, and it involves two deaths.
The Fort Myers Police Department posted three times on Wednesday morning, July 29, about a scene on Maravilla Avenue.
The layer that feeds Lee County Utilities' public boil water notice map held four notices with no rescind date on Wednesday morning, July 29.
Two things emerged on Tuesday, July 28 in the Ranchette Road case in South Fort Myers, and they sit awkwardly together.
Fort Myers police say Willian Rosa Do'Amaral turned himself in to law enforcement and is being held in the Lee County Jail on a charge of second-degree murder, following the fatal shooting of a woman at an apartment complex on Winkler Avenue on Monday morning.
Lee County crews will shift southbound Ortiz Avenue traffic onto the newly built roadway between Colonial Boulevard and the Hanson Street roundabout, most likely overnight from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office says George Beemer, 23, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, first-degree arson and abuse of a dead human body in connection with the Ranchette Road fire. The charges are allegations.
The Fort Myers Police Department said on Monday that one person is in custody following a fatal shooting, after an active scene near Winkler Avenue on Monday morning.
Investigators determined the Saturday structure fire on Ranchette Road in Lee County was incendiary, meaning intentionally set, and originated in the kitchen. One person was found dead after the fire.
Ladavion King, the 43-year-old man the Florida Highway Patrol charged after the standoff that closed Interstate 75 in both directions near Alico Road on Wednesday, July 22, made his first appearance in a Lee County court on Saturday, July 25.
The Fort Myers Police Department responded Saturday afternoon, July 25, to a crash involving a vehicle and an e-bike at the intersection of State Road 82 and Colonial Boulevard.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office released the initial 911 calls from the death of a 17-month-old girl found in a vehicle in a church parking lot in south Fort Myers on July 21. No arrests have been made.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office responded to a structure fire in the 11000 block of Ranchette Road in Fort Myers on Saturday afternoon, July 25, and one person was found dead.
The Lee County Sheriff's Office issued a traffic advisory around midday Saturday, July 25 for a crash with injuries at Bell Tower Road and Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers.
Lee County election officials ran the logic and accuracy test on their vote counting equipment on Friday, July 24, ahead of the August 18 primary, and one machine failed it.
The Florida Department of Transportation is installing wrong-way detection devices at Exit 131, where I-75 meets Daniels Parkway in Lee County. The equipment warns a driver who has entered an exit ramp against traffic and alerts traffic managers at the same time.
Both directions of Interstate 75 near Alico Road in Lee County were shut for hours on July 22 during a standoff with a man the Florida Highway Patrol said was wanted in a fatal St. Petersburg shooting.
Fort Myers City Council voted unanimously on July 20 to approve a $109 million construction contract with Wharton-Smith, Inc. for a new police headquarters, a project whose total cost is put at about $147 million.
NeoGenomics, the Fort Myers-based cancer diagnostics company, will pay $9,813,260 plus interest to settle a Justice Department investigation into consulting arrangements it self-disclosed in 2021, with no admission of liability.
The median Fort Myers sale price slipped to about $348,000 in the spring, down 2.4 percent from a year earlier, even as Lee Health broke ground on an $824 million hospital campus that will be the biggest healthcare build in Southwest Florida history.
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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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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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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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