Collier County

Going into the summer months, a chlorine shortage could pose a big problem for people’s pocket books. The shortage is seeing a spike in prices. The first reason for the spike in chlorine prices is the economy, and the next reason is due to an uptick in new pools. Since the onset of the pandemic […]

The future of our court system will forever be changed post-pandemic, as remote proceedings have proven to make more sense for some types of cases. As in so many others parts of life, Zoom has become an integral part of the courtroom, and Judge Joseph Foster in Collier County believes that might continue to be […]

The housing market is still booming in Southwest Florida, as the region is breaking real estate records — also making it tough to buy. The few homes on the market in the area are creating bidding wars among cash buyers. There are so few homes on the market presently, Realtors are telling people to take […]

Authorities say they have found additional victims who were targeted by an Immokalee High School teacher accused of sending photos to a student. Travis Westberry, 30, was arrested on March 23 by the Collier County Sheriff’s Office on charges of transferring harmful information to a child via an electronic device and battery. Jail records show […]

Marco Island’s roads are set to become safer with new technology that will scan license plates of all drivers going on and off the island. The cameras are mounted on poles at each bridge on the island. The software is taking pictures of each vehicle that goes by, logging the date and the time. The […]

Collier County Sheriff’s Office wants the public’s help to identify a man who investigators say had a suspicious encounter with a teenage girl in Golden Gate Thursday morning. According to the CCSO Facebook post, around 8:20 a.m., a girl was walking to school along 20th Pl SW toward 50th Terrace SW when a man she […]

A boat washed ashore on a Southwest Florida beach overnight, but no one knows exactly where it came from. The sailboat “Shania” is full of personal belongings, but whose? The boat is registered to a man in Key West, and witnesses say investigators told them he woke up one day and it was gone. “We […]

A boost for Southwest Florida is coming. A new theater will help to create jobs, entertainment and promote an industry hit hard by the pandemic. Gulfshore Playhouse in Naples is expanding at a time when most theaters are only recently reopening. It’s new campus will bring more than $20 million a year to the area. […]

Too many traffic lights and too much congestion. Those are some of the complaints people have about Immokalee Road in North Naples. “We always say Immokalee and Pine Ridge are the worst,” said Chloe Pankita, of Collier County. “We always avoid them and go around them.” Pankita said she plans ahead whenever she has to […]

Click here to read the story by our media partner Gulfshore Business magazine. A relatively small piece of land is at the center of a big vote in Collier County. It’s a real estate deal tied back to a county commissioner, but he told WINK News he won’t abstain from the vote. In the early […]