SW Florida musicians are jamming for cancer-stricken rock guitarist James Wilder of Soapy Tuna, Cinder and more bands. Here's ...

Days after the Town of Fort Myers Beach celebrated the planting of a gumbo-limbo tree at Bayside Veterans Park, a contractor working for Lee County was taking down cabbage palm trees at Crescent Beach ...

"... if they know anything at all, would they please either call Crime Stoppers or the Fort Myers Police Department," grieving father pleas.

A Fort Myers Beach man found unresponsive in the water near the Sanibel Causeway has died. At approximately 9:30 a.m. Feb. 4, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Lee County ...

From a Gulf Coast waterfront seafood spot to an intimate Cuban chef’s counter on the Atlantic, these romantic restaurants are ...

Wilson was sentenced to death for the brutal 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral. His appeal challenges a 2023 change in Florida law that no longer requires a unanimous jury ...

And check out Reed Tetzloff on the Fort Myers Patch calendar ...

The Florida Department of Health in Collier County issued a water quality advisory for North Gulf Shore Beach Access Clam ...

Florida's beaches are hit by smelly sargassum blooms. A new study estimates costs at $3.63 billion annually. Here's why it ...

The Florida hospital worker was caught on surveillance camera using the patient's credit card to spend more than $500 at ...

Authorities have not named the 16-year-old teen a suspect in the murder of his 18-year-old stepsister who died aboard a cruise.

Hundreds of students at Ida S. Baker, Mariner, Island Coast and Lehigh Senior high schools in Lee County, Florida protested U.S. immigration policy ...