Lemon Bay High students build solar-powered car

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ENGLEWOOD, Fla. Two Lemon Bay High School students built a solar-powered car for a statewide solar energy competition.

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CHARLOTTE COUNTY

1 person dead, 2 hospitalized after Charlotte County apartment fire

One person is dead and two have been hospitalized following a Tuesday morning fire at a Charlotte County apartment building.

Tuesday features warm weather, a few inland showers

A few showers will form inland after lunchtime. These will be relatively weak but should bring much-needed rain to several communities.

DOWNTOWN FORT MYERS

Brightening downtown Fort Myers with art

Seven teams of artists are painting murals that’ll pop up all over downtown Fort Myers and is for Southwest Florida’s Muralfest. The event will act as a fundraiser to help artists impacted by Hurricane Ian. Like much of Southwest Florida, the art community has been hurting since Hurricane Ian. “The last year, we went through […]

COLLIER COUNTY

Push to ban COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Collier County

A task force is looking to stop all COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Collier County. The idea is to spell out your rights regarding healthcare, and the vote is Tuesday. The state already largely bans the mandates. But several of the people WINK News spoke to on Monday agreed with no mandates; most said they want […]

KEY LARGO

Moving Modular: The hurricane-fighting homes coming to Florida’s coasts

Much of Key Largo has been built to code to fight that thorn from breaking the glass of the vase, just like how these homes now need to be built to withstand winds of 180 miles per hour.

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CHARLOTTE COUNTY

Charlotte High School students confront school over graduation ticket limit

Graduation is that special time when a person’s accomplishments are honored in front of friends and families. With the end of the school year slowly approaching, graduation is right around the corner.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

Charlotte High School student arrested for making threat on Snapchat

The Punta Gorda Police Department says it arrested a Charlotte High School student on Thursday for making a threat against the school on Snapchat. Officers say they received a tip about the threat from North Port police that a student posted on Snapchat, saying they planned to “shoot up” the school. Police quickly identified the […]

COLLIER COUNTY

Barron Collier High School student arrested for bringing BB gun to school

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office says a Barron Collier High School student was arrested for bringing a BB gun to school on Thursday. Deputies say the 15-year-old had a loaded BB gun in his backpack that appeared real and say the teen showed the gun to multiple students. The sheriff’s office says the student told […]

CLEWISTON

Champion program at Clewiston High School helping students graduate

Thirteen high schoolers now have brighter futures after educators and mentors worked together to help them graduate. These students overcame missed credits and absences to get their diplomas. These Clewiston High School champions didn’t start as champions. When Hendry County superintendent Mike Swindle noticed a high percentage of Black male students failed to graduate from […]

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Removing dying trees from Sanibel after getting poisoned by Hurricane Ian’s storm

We lost a lot of trees when saltwater rushed ashore during Hurricane Ian. Crews are out on Sanibel Island, marking and removing the dying vegetation. Joel Caouette, a biologist for the City of Sanibel, says that arsenic cyanide saltwater “killed these very large trees, killed a lot of trees.” All of these have something in […]

Family rebuilds, reopens Bonita Bill’s in honor of the man behind the name

Pain and destruction are only the beginning of the comeback story for a waterfront eating institution near Fort Myers Beach.

Nursing home for veterans coming to Collier County

There’s a plan to get more help to wounded warriors in the Southwest Florida community. $30,000,000 has been approved by Collier County. Under the plan, the State Department of Veteran Affairs will put the cash into an escrow account. The goal is to use that money to make a nursing home for veterans since Collier […]

89-year-old Naples softball player spreading joy with his love for the game

Jim Neuser is something to watch and something else altogether to listen to. At 89 years old, He is the catcher for the Naples Phillies softball team.

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