Cape Coral
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 Highway Patrol received the crash call at 7.25 a.m. Tuesday and still listed the southbound Exit 143 ramp and the westbound right lane of Bayshore Road as blocked after units arrived at 8.12 a.m.
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 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 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.
The Highway Patrol received the crash call at 2.22 a.m. and still listed a roadblock caused by emergency vehicles at 2.55 a.m. No lane count, injury information or cause has been released.
Florida Highway Patrol arrested Christian David Perez, 18, after a Monday morning crash on southbound I-75 north of Corkscrew Road. The Lee County jail lists three DUI counts.
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.
A judge found probable cause on four charges at Saturday's first appearance, and the state moved for pretrial detention. The Sheriff's Office has since published the same four charges under its own name. Longin has not been tried or convicted.
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 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.
Deputies responded to a call for a shooting at a house on Welborn Road, off Nalle Grade Road, and worked the property into early Monday. One person was treated for minor injuries. The Sheriff's Office has released nothing else.
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.
Sheriff Marceno announced the arrest of Whycliff Longin at a Friday news conference. The Sheriff's Office says a woman was found dead of blunt force trauma on Haviland Avenue Thursday. Two newsrooms covering that conference give different charge lists. Longin has not been convicted.
Deputies were called to a Colonial Walk North home at 6.47 p.m. for a possible drowning, and paramedics found a woman face down with her dog floating in front of her. A homicide detective took the case, which is routine and is not an accusation.
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 Highway Patrol logged the vehicle fire at 12.18 p.m. at the southbound entrance at exit 116 and its board records the roadway as clear. The fire district says nobody was injured.
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 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.
