Cape Coral FL

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - A deputy in southwest Florida helped a family remove an unwanted guest at their pool party: a ball python. Body camera video from the Lee County Sheriff's Office shows the deputy responding to a call about the snake at a home in Lehigh Acres on the morning of Saturday, July 5.

Island nonprofit FISH of SanCap reports pantry visits have already surpassed last year's total. Watch as Sanibel Community Correspondent, Anvar Ruziev, visits the pantry and their team.

On one typical day turned awry, Erin McGuire was riding her bicycle on the 16-mile Pine Island bike path, which runs the entire length of Southwest Florida's largest island. This was no unfamiliar route. This was a route that Erin rode every day. After Erin’s mother passed away a year and a half ago, she started...

Sanibel Captiva Community Bank is hosting a blood drive July 11 to help Lee Health address critically low blood supplies. Sign up to donate at their Bridge Branch location in Fort Myers.

The Gulf Coast Humane Society broke ground Monday on a 10,000-sq. ft. veterinary clinic that will serve Southwest Florida. Slated for completion in spring 2026, the project is being led by Stevens Construction, with GMA Architects & Planners and RESPEC serving as additional partners. Located at 2010 Arcadia St., the...

Team members from Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille on Fort Myers Beach recently spent a morning volunteering at the Gulf Coast Humane Society. The employees cleaned all the kennels, did laundry, measured and bagged food, and exercised dogs. “Our group enjoyed helping out at the Gulf Coast Humane...

Nashville, Tennessee—RobertDouglas announced that it represented TPI Hospitality as the exclusive advisor on the refinancing of the Margaritaville Beach Resort Fort Myers Beach, a 254-room resort in Fort Myers Beach, Florida. The financing, provided by an institutional-grade balance sheet lender, repaid construction...

Nearly three years after Hurricane Ian destroyed thousands of homes across Lee County, many survivors are still living in trailers , battling red tape and bureaucracy as they try to rebuild. Now, as officials move tens of millions of dollars away from housing relief and into infrastructure projects, residents are...

The Lee County Sheriff's Office is sharing body camera footage of the moment deputies rescued a couple from a fully engulfed mobile home fire in North Fort Myers, Tuesday night.

This is a rare sighting as sea turtles usually nest at night.