Fort Myers FL

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Two kayakers were rescued after being lost at Bunche Beach in Lee County on Wednesday night. According to the Iona McGregor Fire District, the kayakers were found after more than two hours of searching, and there were no injuries reported. The Lee County Sheriff's Office...

Lee County is generally considered to be more affordable for residents than the Naples area, at least for housing. But, does that same logic apply to grocery prices? The Naples Daily News compared prices for popular grocery items at seven different stores in Naples and Fort Myers/Cape Coral on July 20 and 21 to see if

What appeared to be minutes after the agenda for London Bay’s special Tuesday Town Council meeting was posted, CEO Mark Wilson canceled the meeting. Wilson came to the conclusion the Town Council would not vote favorably for his condo/hotel project on the old Outrigger property and now says he’s going with the Live Loc

Lennar has bought 109 acres in Fort Myers, where it plans to build a new community with 515 houses. The property is at the intersection of Littleton Road, U.S. Highway 41 and N. Tamiami Trail. The homebuilder paid $20.08 million for it. According to a statement from Colliers, which represented...

A new supplemental radar going up at the Fort Myers Public Safety Center is expected to be operational within days following a WPTV investigation that highlighted what radar experts said was a weather gap across Florida. WATCH BELOW:. The installation is the first of four new radars planned for Florida...

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Lee County is set to install its first weather radar, a multimillion-dollar system that will improve storm detection and emergency response across Southwest Florida. “This is the first system we're bringing to the state of Florida,” said Tara Goode of Climavision, the company partnering with...

A routine trash run in St. Petersburg turned into a deadly crime scene Wednesday when a city sanitation worker was shot and killed while seated inside a municipal front-loader in the Childs Park neighborhood. Police say a suspect later led troopers on a long chase down Interstate 75 before a tense standoff in Lee Count

The Fort Myers Beach Town Council was about to start the process of foreclosing on the former bank building at 2815 Estero Boulevard in front of the Sea Grape Plaza owned by Robert Himmelstein. On Wednesday, Himmelsten went to Town Hall and paid the $16,500 code fine to resolve the issue.

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Cape Coral city council is considering lowering speed limits on neighborhood streets after an engineering study revealed the deadly impact of higher vehicle speeds. The yearlong study found that a pedestrian hit by a car traveling 20 mph has about a 5% chance of dying....

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — Florida residents with mismatched names on their documents are being denied driver’s licenses, creating challenges for those trying to prove their identity. Steve Plunkett, 70, is one of the affected residents. Born in Price, Utah, Plunkett said his mother gave him her maiden name,...