Naples FL

I live in a neighborhood that always has fun events and get togethers. Last weekend they had a fall festival for us with food, crafters, face painting, bounce houses and goats. Yes, goats! When I saw the invitation I knew I couldn't miss it. Especially because they promised babies. And there were two of them, born...

In mid-October, a vocal leader for an opposition group threatened to sue if Collier County commissioners approved a Costco in the Hacienda Lakes neighborhood. The warning came during the final public hearings on the proposed project, but it didn't stop commissioners from approving it. Commissioners voted unanimously...

Mason's Famous Lobster Rolls will debut three fast-casual seafood restaurants across Southwest Florida. The first has a soft opening on Dec. 1 at 6900 Daniels Pkwy. in Fort Myers, followed by a grand opening two days later. A second restaurant will open at 8017 Plaza del Lago Drive in Estero....

Southwest Florida artist Paul Arsenault receives top billing for the “Holiday Hootenanny” from 2 until 6 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5 at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center’s nature store, 300 Tower Road, Naples. From 2 until 4 p.m., Arsenault will sell and sign the recently published book,...

Lakes Park is all aglow in the holiday spirit, courtesy of volunteers from Doc Ford’s Rum Bar & Grille on Fort Myers Beach. The team helped transform the park’s miniature train ride into the Holiday Express, creating a mile-long winter wonderland of twinkling lights and holiday decorations. “This...

Lawyers and spies are common subjects for thrillers, but Scott Turow and David McCloskey are two novelists who take their thrillers to a higher level, by showing their flawed characters’ struggles for humanity and survival. The best-selling authors each will headline a luncheon this winter for the Friends of...

On Monday and Wednesday afternoons, boys and girls trickle into a bare-bones gym that sits between Old 41 and U.S. 41 in Bonita Springs. They're dressed in exercise clothes, and are ready to get started on their warmups. Thirty-found kids are enrolled in the program, known as Wilson's Fit Futures....

November 25, 2025 – NCH Rooney Heart Institute recently became the first in Florida to utilize the new Shockwave C2 AERO™ coronary catheter to treat patients with calcified coronary artery disease, marking another major milestone for NCH, the Cath Lab team, and Southwest Florida. Since the Shockwave Intravascular...

1. DUI MANSLAUGHTER: Naples man charged for death of 61-year-old A Naples man has been arrested for the death of a 61-year-old motorcyclist. In a fatal T-bone car crash, a Naples man riding his motorcycle sustained fatal injuries after Mark Allen Frederick, 33, made a turn into the motorcyclist’s path.

NAPLES, Fla. — Publix has opened its newest store in Naples, delivering a modernized shopping experience and a major retail anchor to one of Collier County’s most rapidly expanding suburban corridors. Located at 1715 Oil Well Road within The Shoppes at Orange Blossom, the new supermarket directly serves the booming...