Fort Myers FL

Lee County will soon be home to a new FDLE Regional Operations Center featuring state-of-the-art forensic lab services and law enforcement training facilities.

Speed cameras in seventeen Lee County school areas will snap photos of speeding drivers starting Aug. 11. Anyone going 10 mph over the limit will get hit with a $100 ticket. The cameras will record drivers for half an hour before school starts until half an hour after the final bell. Signs warn drivers as they enter...

An open-air shopping center in Fort Myers has a new third-party management company. DLC will be handling day-to-day operations and leasing for Bell Tower, the company announced in late July. DLC is an open-air shopping center operator headquartered in Elmsford, New York, with regional offices in Atlanta, Buffalo,...

After thousands of students missed first period due to late buses last year, Lee County School District made changes to the bus schedule. The Safe Start Initiative sets new times — elementary schools now start at 8:40 a.m. Middle and high school start times remain similar. Last year, 18,000...

Fox 4’s Austin Schargorodski reports on how Lee County could buy land in Alva for a future EMS station—and why a retired EMS worker says it’s a sign of growth the community has pushed back against.

The Lee County School District is installing cameras on school buses to ticket drivers who illegally pass stopped buses, after reporting 912 violations in a single day.

Charlotte County commissioners are urging Lee County commissioners to consider the potential impacts of a Boca Grande ordinance that would eliminate public parking at several county beaches.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) – A Charlotte County couple has a trial date set and faces the death penalty for the alleged murder of a man in September 2022. According to court documents, Andrew Smith and Melissa Dymond-Demetrowitz were indicted in Charlotte County on June 8, 2023, for first-degree murder with a...

Cape Coral's school zone speed cameras have issued more than 12,000 tickets in six months and will reactivate August 11 as students return to school. Police hope the program improves safety.

Rochester travelers will soon have a direct route to sunny Florida, according to 13WHAM. Breeze Airways revealed it will launch nonstop service from Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport to Fort Myers beginning January 8. The seasonal flights will run Thursdays and Sundays with fares starting at...