NAPLES Fighting to save Lorenzo Walker Technical High School Not every success story starts with a four-year degree. Students at Lorenzo Walker Technical High School are a prime example of just that
Families pushing for change on State Road 82 Three memorials stand just yards apart, each honoring a loved one who was taken from this world by the same road.
FORT MYERS Drivers continue using parking lot as a cut-through Patience is a virtue, but some drivers trying to get to the Edison Bridge had another idea to skip traffic: Cutting through the Big Lots parking lot at US 41 and Pondella Road.
FORT MYERS GL Homes volunteers give back through friendly competition Box after box, GL Homes volunteers put in the work at the Harry Chapin food bank’s “Pack the Pantry” event.
New treatment may help your runny nose Stuffy or runny nose, itchy eyes and constant throat clearing are common complaints for millions of Americans.
FORT MYERS First responders take part in full-scale training exercise at JetBlue Park Gaping wounds, people limping, firefighters in protective gear, and first responders in hazmat suits. It might look and sound scary, but it’s all apart of first responder training at JetBlue Park.
Day 2 of jury selection for Wade Wilson, man accused of double murder The man accused of murdering two women sat in court for a second day in a row as lawyers worked to cut a list of 60 potential jurors down to just 12.
Burmese pythons found slithering further north FWC said that Burmese pythons were discovered in Lee, Charlotte, and Sarasota counties in the past 9 years, but they are still working to find out why.
First step complete in Lee County keeping FEMA flood discount After Hurricane Ian, Lee County officials said they expanded every resource to help our neighbors recover and be more resilient.
Investor purchases 20-acre land parcel near Punta Gorda Airport Randy Krise, founder of Fort Myers-based Krise Commercial Group, bought the land in in the Enterprise Charlotte Airport Park zone.
College Plaza shopping center hits market for $15.2M College Plaza includes 56,386 square feet of space. It’s a fully leased shopping center, with Ada’s Natural Market, West Marine boat supply store and Pet Supermarket the largest tenants.
Gladiolus Optima Classical Academy delays opening to Fall 2025, leaving parents scrambling Students, parents and teachers are left in limbo after their school says the doors won’t open in August.
ESTERO Craig Lang extradited to U.S., accused of involvement in deadly robbery of married couple The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is extraditing an accused criminal back to U.S. soil for his role in the fatal shooting of a married couple during a gun deal gone wrong.
Chef Rocco Scarpino opens Rossini in Port Charlotte Rossini by Chef Rocco has been completely renovated with custom-made wine racks that adorn walls, subdued decor and a ceiling painted with a blue sky and clouds.
FORT MYERS Ferris wheel in downtown Fort Myers not happening The dream of riding in a Ferris wheel, enjoying scenic views in downtown Fort Myers is being scrapped for now.
NAPLES Fighting to save Lorenzo Walker Technical High School Not every success story starts with a four-year degree. Students at Lorenzo Walker Technical High School are a prime example of just that
Families pushing for change on State Road 82 Three memorials stand just yards apart, each honoring a loved one who was taken from this world by the same road.
FORT MYERS Drivers continue using parking lot as a cut-through Patience is a virtue, but some drivers trying to get to the Edison Bridge had another idea to skip traffic: Cutting through the Big Lots parking lot at US 41 and Pondella Road.
FORT MYERS GL Homes volunteers give back through friendly competition Box after box, GL Homes volunteers put in the work at the Harry Chapin food bank’s “Pack the Pantry” event.
New treatment may help your runny nose Stuffy or runny nose, itchy eyes and constant throat clearing are common complaints for millions of Americans.
FORT MYERS First responders take part in full-scale training exercise at JetBlue Park Gaping wounds, people limping, firefighters in protective gear, and first responders in hazmat suits. It might look and sound scary, but it’s all apart of first responder training at JetBlue Park.
Day 2 of jury selection for Wade Wilson, man accused of double murder The man accused of murdering two women sat in court for a second day in a row as lawyers worked to cut a list of 60 potential jurors down to just 12.
Burmese pythons found slithering further north FWC said that Burmese pythons were discovered in Lee, Charlotte, and Sarasota counties in the past 9 years, but they are still working to find out why.
First step complete in Lee County keeping FEMA flood discount After Hurricane Ian, Lee County officials said they expanded every resource to help our neighbors recover and be more resilient.
Investor purchases 20-acre land parcel near Punta Gorda Airport Randy Krise, founder of Fort Myers-based Krise Commercial Group, bought the land in in the Enterprise Charlotte Airport Park zone.
College Plaza shopping center hits market for $15.2M College Plaza includes 56,386 square feet of space. It’s a fully leased shopping center, with Ada’s Natural Market, West Marine boat supply store and Pet Supermarket the largest tenants.
Gladiolus Optima Classical Academy delays opening to Fall 2025, leaving parents scrambling Students, parents and teachers are left in limbo after their school says the doors won’t open in August.
ESTERO Craig Lang extradited to U.S., accused of involvement in deadly robbery of married couple The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is extraditing an accused criminal back to U.S. soil for his role in the fatal shooting of a married couple during a gun deal gone wrong.
Chef Rocco Scarpino opens Rossini in Port Charlotte Rossini by Chef Rocco has been completely renovated with custom-made wine racks that adorn walls, subdued decor and a ceiling painted with a blue sky and clouds.
FORT MYERS Ferris wheel in downtown Fort Myers not happening The dream of riding in a Ferris wheel, enjoying scenic views in downtown Fort Myers is being scrapped for now.
This illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory in February 2024, depicts the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. The supermassive black hole, seen here pulling in surrounding matter, has a mass 17 billion times that of the Sun and is growing in mass by the equivalent of another Sun per day, making it the fastest-growing black hole ever known. (M. Kornmesser/ESO via AP) Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a day. The record-breaking quasar shines 500 trillion times brighter than our sun. The black hole powering this distant quasar is more than 17 billion times more immense than our sun, an Australian-led team reported Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. While the quasar resembles a mere dot in images, scientists envision a ferocious place. The rotating disk around the quasar’s black hole — the luminous swirling gas and other matter from gobbled-up stars — is like a cosmic hurricane. “This quasar is the most violent place that we know in the universe,” lead author Christian Wolf of Australian National University said in an email. The European Southern Observatory spotted the object, J0529-4351, during a 1980 sky survey, but it was thought to be a star. It was not identified as a quasar — the extremely active and luminous core of a galaxy — until last year. Observations by telescopes in Australia and Chile’s Atacama Desert clinched it. “The exciting thing about this quasar is that it was hiding in plain sight and was misclassified as a star previously,” Yale University’s Priyamvada Natarajan, who was not involved in the study, said in an email. These later observations and computer modeling have determined that the quasar is gobbling up the equivalent of 370 suns a year — roughly one a day. Further analysis shows the mass of the black hole to be 17 to 19 billion times that of our sun, according to the team. More observations are needed to understand its growth rate. The quasar is 12 billion light-years away and has been around since the early days of the universe. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.