At a mid-April breakfast event, the 35 area nonprofit agencies—chosen from a record number of applicants—were awarded grants from the women’s volunteer organization in areas ranging from arts education, to fighting hunger and homelessness, to providing bikes and wheelchairs to children in need

Chick-fil-A is proposing a drive-thru restaurant at the site of the former Red Lobster restaurant on U.S. 41 in Naples, but the project is facing early criticism. 

Fresh Catch Bistro, PJK Neighborhood Chinese Restaurant and Real Seafood Co. are launching upscale casual restaurants in units previously home to TGI Fridays, The Saloon and Bokamper’s Sports Bar & Grill, respectively.  

Father Riley worked at three churches in Charlotte County and another in Naples. On Friday, new allegations emerged from a news conference in Sarasota.

A manatee named Toast was released back into the Florida waters after a final medical evaluation from wildlife officials.

The owner of the Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel and Suites and Hurricane Charley’s Raw Bar and Grill has chosen Pece of Mind Environmental to remove the mineral.

Asbestos was found in the Punta Gorda Waterfront Hotel and Suites along with the Hurricane Charley’s Raw Bar and Grill next door.

Wildlife officials have announced five more endangered smalltooth sawfish mortalities occurred in the last two weeks of the ongoing abnormal fish behavior event in the Florida Keys.