Florida’s coastline is getting a clean bill of health this week as state biologists confirm that the organism responsible for ...

Sampling by FGCU Water School researchers and SCCF marine scientist rules out karenia brevis; Town reminds residents of ...

Juvenile smalltooth sawfish, an endangered ray that once ranged across the entire Gulf of Mexico and up the Atlantic seaboard ...

Florida wildlife officials confirmed Friday that while traces of the red tide organism Karenia brevis have cropped up in ...

Scientists are tracking unseasonably large sargassum mats in the Atlantic. Where it will land, if at all, depends on winds ...

It had been nearly five years since Vinnie Hinostroza’s brief first stint with the Florida Panthers came to an end. The veteran forward, re-acquired by the Panthers at the NHL trade deadline on Friday ...

The U.S. construction industry needs to hire hundreds of thousands of new workers to meet project demands. A new career and technical school is being built in south Fort Myers to address regional ...

Southwest Florida home ownership mostly remains higher than a decade ago, but state lags behind much of the nation and keeps losing ground. Analysts expect home prices to continue to decline in ...

Each week during the school year, The News-Press and the Naples Daily News select high school girls athletes who stood out the week before based on a combination of coach reports sent to ...

Looking for some fun in Southwest Florida? Here are our top things to do this weekend and beyond, including the Southwest Florida Reading Festival, PRIDE Cape Coral and the Sanibel Shell Show & ...

Economic experts are stunned by the latest jobs report that found the Trump economy lost 92,000 jobs in February despite expectations of an increase of 50,000. Unemployment rose to 4.4 percent. Some ...

Lee Circuit Judge John Carlin, a longtime judge and former prosecutor, has died. Carlin served the Southwest Florida community for over 35 years as a county and circuit judge. He was first elected in ...