Expect more delays on Colonial and Fowler due to intersection projectLee County STET team protecting our schools with cameras
FORT MYERS Expect more delays on Colonial and Fowler due to intersection project Work on the Colonial Fowler intersection in Fort Myers is underway, and there are many moving parts.
FORT MYERS Lee County STET team protecting our schools with cameras There are cameras in our kid’s schools, dozens of them, but did you know that Lee County Schools sends those live video feeds to the sheriff’s office, and it’s someone’s job to watch them?
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Six-week abortion ban to take effect soon A stricter abortion ban will take effect in Florida on Wednesday.
Estero’s Golf Coast Driving Range shuts down, visitors devastated A place to relax, let loose and hit a few drives, has come to the end of an era for this community. “This is the first place we came to,” said Roxanne Henningsen, a Bonita Springs resident. “And it like became our second home. The people are wonderful. It’s just a great atmosphere. And we’ve […]
CAPE CORAL Business owners reeling after massive fire in Cape Coral “Very scary” are the words Denise Creacy used to describe what she felt when she saw plumes of black smoke, firefighters, and police fill her neighborhood.
LEHIGH ACRES Changing how you are represented in Lee County Leaders want to hear your thoughts this week at a town hall on how you elect county commissioners.
FORT MYERS Frontier Airlines announces nonstop flights from RSW to San Juan, PR These flights will take off on June 2 and run 3 times a week.
NAPLES Fight to save the trees in Naples neighborhood When Sue Canfield looks up in her front yard she sees light shining through the sprawling branches of a 25-year-old Oak towering above her. The trees, which line every road in the waterways of naples, is why she choose this neighborhood but soon those very trees will be taken down.
City of Naples hosts open house workshop for Naples road projects The City of Naples is hosting an open house workshop to hear from the public regarding road improvements.
CAPE CORAL Ollie’s Pub, the home of SWFL’s local music scene, closes after 4 memorable years Ollie’s Pub, once the center of local original music in Southwest Florida, is closing after a prosperous yet arduous four years.
New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis puts business degree to use Hargis began his new job at FGCU on April 29 knowing he would have about $15 million in annual funding—and also knowing the budget has more than doubled in the last decade.
Future unknown for Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel site What’s to come of the Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel and adjoining Hurricane Charley’s Sushi, Raw Bar & Grill after demolition is yet to be determined.
(CBS) Trump held in contempt for violating gag order in “hush money” trial. Here’s how much he owes. The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York held him in contempt of court on Tuesday for violating a gag order.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Shootout that killed 4 law officers began as task force tried to serve a warrant, police say A shootout that killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in North Carolina began as officers went serve a warrant.
WINK NEWS Semi-truck crash shuts down multiple lanes at Pine Ridge Road A crash involving a semi-truck caused lanes at Pine Ridge Road to close temporarily on Tuesday.
FORT MYERS Expect more delays on Colonial and Fowler due to intersection project Work on the Colonial Fowler intersection in Fort Myers is underway, and there are many moving parts.
FORT MYERS Lee County STET team protecting our schools with cameras There are cameras in our kid’s schools, dozens of them, but did you know that Lee County Schools sends those live video feeds to the sheriff’s office, and it’s someone’s job to watch them?
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA Six-week abortion ban to take effect soon A stricter abortion ban will take effect in Florida on Wednesday.
Estero’s Golf Coast Driving Range shuts down, visitors devastated A place to relax, let loose and hit a few drives, has come to the end of an era for this community. “This is the first place we came to,” said Roxanne Henningsen, a Bonita Springs resident. “And it like became our second home. The people are wonderful. It’s just a great atmosphere. And we’ve […]
CAPE CORAL Business owners reeling after massive fire in Cape Coral “Very scary” are the words Denise Creacy used to describe what she felt when she saw plumes of black smoke, firefighters, and police fill her neighborhood.
LEHIGH ACRES Changing how you are represented in Lee County Leaders want to hear your thoughts this week at a town hall on how you elect county commissioners.
FORT MYERS Frontier Airlines announces nonstop flights from RSW to San Juan, PR These flights will take off on June 2 and run 3 times a week.
NAPLES Fight to save the trees in Naples neighborhood When Sue Canfield looks up in her front yard she sees light shining through the sprawling branches of a 25-year-old Oak towering above her. The trees, which line every road in the waterways of naples, is why she choose this neighborhood but soon those very trees will be taken down.
City of Naples hosts open house workshop for Naples road projects The City of Naples is hosting an open house workshop to hear from the public regarding road improvements.
CAPE CORAL Ollie’s Pub, the home of SWFL’s local music scene, closes after 4 memorable years Ollie’s Pub, once the center of local original music in Southwest Florida, is closing after a prosperous yet arduous four years.
New FGCU athletic director Colin Hargis puts business degree to use Hargis began his new job at FGCU on April 29 knowing he would have about $15 million in annual funding—and also knowing the budget has more than doubled in the last decade.
Future unknown for Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel site What’s to come of the Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel and adjoining Hurricane Charley’s Sushi, Raw Bar & Grill after demolition is yet to be determined.
(CBS) Trump held in contempt for violating gag order in “hush money” trial. Here’s how much he owes. The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York held him in contempt of court on Tuesday for violating a gag order.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Shootout that killed 4 law officers began as task force tried to serve a warrant, police say A shootout that killed four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in North Carolina began as officers went serve a warrant.
WINK NEWS Semi-truck crash shuts down multiple lanes at Pine Ridge Road A crash involving a semi-truck caused lanes at Pine Ridge Road to close temporarily on Tuesday.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff / Flickr JERUSALEM (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Israel and the West Bank for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday, setting aside the goal of a long-sought peace accord to make way for more modest hopes for an end to two months of deadly violence. There were no signs that Kerry made any headway in easing tensions during his meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. As his plane touched down, a Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers, wounding three, before the attacker was shot and wounded, the Israeli military said. It was the latest in a spate of violence that has sunk the chances of a renewed peace push during the Obama administration’s final year. Kerry, whose nine-month peace mediation between the parties collapsed in April 2014, reiterated the American goal of establishing an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. But he made no mention of the possibility of reviving peace talks. Alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kerry cited Israel’s obligation to defend itself from “attacks in the streets with knives, with scissors, with cars.” When he met Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, he said the shootings and stabbings were a “challenge to all civilized people.” None of the leaders themselves offered any encouragement that peace might be possible right now. “There can be no peace when we have an onslaught of terror, not here, not anywhere else,” Netanyahu said as he welcomed the chief American diplomat. The current spike in violence erupted in mid-September over tensions surrounding a sensitive Jerusalem holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nineteen Israelis have been killed, mostly in stabbings. Israeli fire has killed 89 Palestinians. Israel says 57 of these were attackers, while the rest died in clashes with security forces. In addition, Ezra Schwartz, an 18-year-old from Kerry’s home state of Massachusetts, was killed in a West Bank shooting last week. The secretary of state mentioned Schwartz twice by name. The larger vision of a two-state solution has been the centerpiece of American foreign policy in the Middle East for decades. Given the level of violence, Kerry acknowledged ahead of his trip that ambitions would be scaled back, saying he would be seeking steps “that could calm things down a bit.” Israel says the outburst of violence is the result of incitement by Palestinian political and religious leaders. The Palestinians say it is the result of nearly half a century of Israeli occupation and frustration over repeated failures in peace efforts and a lack of hope for gaining independence. An Israeli official said that Netanyahu complained about alleged Palestinian incitement and said any confidence-building gestures for the Palestinians would first require calm. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing closed meetings, said that Netanyahu also demanded international recognition of major Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank that Israel hopes to keep under a future peace deal. The Palestinians and the international community, including the U.S., reject all settlement activity as illegal or illegitimate. The official said Israel would not agree to any freeze in settlement construction. The Palestinians seek all of the West Bank, captured by Israel in 1967, as the heartland of their future state. In the West Bank, Kerry said the situation for Palestinians is “very dire” and assured them the U.S. wants to “help contribute to calm and to restore people’s confidence in the ability of a two-state solution to still be viable.” Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said that President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to commit to the two-state solution and provided Kerry with evidence that Israel is “destroying” that goal through continued settlement construction. Before Tuesday, Kerry had visited Israel and the Palestinian territories only once since the latest peace process collapsed, in July 2014. He met with the two leaders last month, in Europe and in Jordan, in an earlier attempt to halt the current round of fighting. America’s broader concerns are the same and Kerry almost surely pressed both sides in private to avoid provocative actions. For the Israelis, that means holding off on settlement construction. For the Palestinians, it means ending incitement to violence. In recent months, Kerry and other U.S. officials had suggested a renewed peace push might be possible. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton made unsuccessful attempts at brokering two-state deals during their final months in office. But the rising death toll seems to have created an environment that makes a similar commitment by President Barack Obama unlikely. Earlier this month, U.S. officials said Obama had made a “realistic assessment” that a peace deal was impossible during his final months in office. Netanyahu seemed to confirm that assessment Tuesday, saying Israel would fight “every hour” against those committing and inciting violence. Abbas, who believes a deal with Netanyahu is impossible, has provided no indication that he wants to restart direct peace talks anytime soon.