Fort Myers FL

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — Patients in Charlotte County are worried as Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, along with AdventHealth, face contract negotiations with UnitedHealthcare that could leave thousands out of network by the new year. "I then got a letter from my first physicians group up in Sarasota, which...

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Cape Coral police arrested Timothy Farnham after he reportedly spent nearly two hours swimming in a canal along Northeast 39th Street, ditching his clothes before being caught. Witness Jacqueline Qualls said she saw Cape Coral police, Cape Coral Fire, and Lee County EMS swarm her...

Cape Coral's City Council has paused the North 3 Utilities Extension Project after a contested roadway plan threatened to add thousands of dollars to individual homeowner assessments. The project, estimated at $384.1 million overall with a $327.8 million construction bid covering 58.8 road miles and roughly 5,180 parcels in northwest Cape Coral, was already moving through the approval process when the council reversed course in mid-October.

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Two women have been arrested after police say a Facebook Marketplace gold sale in Cape Coral turned into a robbery, with the victim dragged by a fleeing vehicle. On Oct. 14, Cape Coral police officers spoke with the victim, who said she and her husband...

A Florida driver apparently thought a photograph and a printer could solve a license plate problem. Unfortunately, the homemade replacement had one flaw that caught a state trooper’s attention. The driver had recently purchased a ... Read more

FORT MYERS, Fla. — A non-tropical area of low pressure off the U.S. East Coast has medium odds for development. This area has been dubbed "Invest 93L" though this designation does not guarantee tropical development. An invest simply means an area of investigation that triggers more data collection. The...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Some counties across the Suncoast are opening their doors for in-person early voting Monday morning. Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties are just a few opening the voting while the mandatory statewide early voting period begins Oct. 24. You can now go to any available polling location...

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — The Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District celebrated the opening of the Caloosahatchee River Estuary Storage and Treatment Facility, or CREST, on Monday, aiming to address flooding and water quality concerns for residents along canals. "When we bought and built this house, we had to...

That’s what Assistant Finance Director Jeff Newman told the Town Council Monday. The $630,000 annual cost is based on 4.4 positions at the pool and does not include items like the chlorine needed to operate the pool. How the town would try to offset any of the operaating costs was not discussed Monday.

A hearing was scheduled for today in front of Circuit Court Judge Keith Kyle in downtown Fort Myers regarding La Ola’s code violation in Times Square. That hearing was canceled as the two sides tried to work out an settlement. An agreement was not reached Monday. Following a closed-door...