The Florida Department of Health in Collier County is lifting a water quality advisory for North Gulf Shore Beach Access Clam Pass Beach North Gulfshore Boulevard in Naples.

Lee Health's self-management resource program meets once a week for six weeks and provides people with tools to manage their chronic pain.

The Charlotte County Utilities Department is rescinding a precautionary boil water notice for customers between Dorchester and Yorkshire streets south of Bachmann Boulevard and north of Quesada Avenue in Port Charlotte.

Ave Maria University reports that 49 of its students have been infected this year.

The Parkinson's Association of Southwest Florida holds a fundraising walk on Saturday, Feb. 14 at North Collier Regional Park.

National Wear Red Day 2026 was celebrated on Friday via the Go Red for Women Campaign shining a light on heart disease, the leading killer of women. The Southwest Florida Go Red for Women effort took center stage at the Ritz-Carlton Naples, Tiburon Thursday.

The University of Florida said Thursday it was investigating two college classrooms where measles exposures may have occurred. Additionally, six other confirmed measles cases were reported across northern Florida in new data published by the Florida Department of Health.

Florida lawmakers are considering legislation to tighten regulations on the production and sale of kratom, an increasingly controversial herbal supplement made from the leaves of a Southeast Asian tree. SB 994, sponsored by Sen. Joe Gruters, and HB 1205, sponsored by Rep. Dean Black, would expand the 2023 Kratom Consumer Protection Act, which they say would help shield consumers from a dangerously unregulated and wildly volatile drug.

A measles outbreak in Collier County has reached 12 (updated: 20) confirmed cases. All those afflicted are students at Ave Maria University. This outbreak joins ones already existing and growing in Texas and South Carolina with hundreds of cases. Those outbreaks are a threat to the United States keeping its measles-free status.

The battle in the fight against cancer is evolving. Southwest Florida Proton unveiled the latest technology used to combat the disease by using a precise and targeted approach to eliminating tumors.