This part of a Tier 1 project for Lee County, which is strategically prioritizing infrastructure as the county’s population ...

Gateway's Dylan Gourley won the Class 4A state title in pole vault on Saturday. Gourley joined Kobe Johnson, Cherldine Paul, Aaron Kluener, Caleb Paul and the Aubrey Rogers boys 4x800 relay team as ...

New United States Postal Service vehicles are displayed at the facility at Page Field in Fort Myers on Wednesday, May. 6, 2026. The USPS has made improvements and updates to the facility that include ...

Details on long-awaited reconstruction of Fort Myers Beach's busiest intersection following 2022's Hurricane Ian in Southwest Florida's Lee County.

Do you have a picture from paradise you’d like to share with Tropicalia readers? We’d love to print it. Email photos to tropicalia@news-press.com. Be sure to include your full name, where you took the ...

Hurricane Ian recovery work overlaps with new Southwest Florida development plans. Multiple major projects try to move ahead.

A health alert has been issued for blue-green algae toxins in the Caloosahatchee River at the Sebastian Canal. Learn how to ...

The following contains excerpts from a May 23, 2020, article by Cynthia Williams in the Fort Myers News-Press. In Fort Myers, in 1868, the fort that had housed U.S. troops during the Civil War just ...

For 20 years, the annual children's art contest has aimed to help save our local environment with crayons and creativity in ...

Three people have died after a hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship. How deadly is rare virus rare?

The Florida Department of Transportation has updated the schedule for its I-75 paving project. Paving operations will now occur from Sunday nights through Friday nights between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.