Farm worker issues took center stage in Immokalee Monday during a visit from U-S Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.  WGCU’s Luis Hernandez was there.

The official start of the Atlantic Hurricane season is just weeks away and forecasters are predicting a record year for storm activity.  WGCU’s John Davis reports.

Soapfest returns to Marco Island this weekend.  Daytime drama stars will attend a number of  events raising funds for local children’s charities. The fundraisers include an auction – and the auctioneer is Walt Willey – who’s played Jackson Montgomery on the ABC Soap Opera” All My Children” for more than twenty years. We talked to Walt Willey about soaps  then and now.

Former Florida House Speaker and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio spoke before a crowd of supporters Thursday in Cape Coral. WGCU’s John Davis was there and has this report.

Kashi Ashram is a little enclave hoping to make a big difference in Sebastian, southeast of Orlando on the Atlantic coast.  Katie Pankow visited Kashi as part of the series “Florida: Heaven on Earth?”

The Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice held an event on Wednesday in Sarasota recognizing the adoption of 9-1-1 reform legislation in Florida.  WGCU’s John Davis reports.

Local law enforcement officers, government officials and members of the public attended a ceremony in Fort Myers on Wednesday to honor the region’s fallen officers.  WGCU’s John Davis reports.

A Bradenton city council member has introduced an ordinance that  would ban so-called “pill mills “in the City.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker.

This is National Salvation Army Week – so named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1965.  Last year the Salvation Army of Lee Hendry and Glades Counties provided food to thousands of people.  It also runs a successful faith based substance abuse rehabilitation program.  WGCU’s Valerie Alker talked to Major Ann Penhale about the Army’s evolving mission.  Penhale is 25 year veteran who’s worked her way up the ranks.

The Lee County Health Department is expanding childhood vaccination services in response to a chicken pox outbreak.   WGCU’s John Davis reports.