About 300 Immokalee children will walk in comfort and style the rest of this summer and to start the new school year, thanks to Laces of Love.

Santa is coming five months early to help a community center in need. The center in the Suncoast neighborhood in North Fort Myers will hold a Christmas in July event

A food distribution event organized by the SWFL Coalition for Democracy at the New Image Tabernacle Church in North Fort Myers on Friday and Saturday served more than 150 people.

Some heroes wear capes. This one has flippers...and a really cool name. A juvenile green sea turtle named Girl Power returned to the Atlantic Ocean Friday after overcoming injuries so severe she wasn't expected to survive.

A Cape Coral restaurant and a synagogue are working together to collect relief supplies for survivors of Venezuela's recent earthquakes.

A couple from Indiana renews vows with a little help from the island community and the nonprofit Dream Foundation.

A historic World War II painting that was displayed in Marco Island will have a new permanent home at the Tuskegee Airmen National Museum in Detroit.

Gulf Coast Humane Society officials say the Independence Day weekend is one of the busiest times for emergency pet care. This week — Monday, June 29 through Friday, July 3 — Lee County Domestic Animal Services will offer free microchipping to ensure pets can be reunited with their owners if they are displaced.

Lee County encourages community to monitor conditions amid high heat.

When the Florida Department of Health in Lee County recently issued a water quality advisory for the Sanibel Causeway area that put the brakes on a special baptism event planned for Saturday at the beach by the Ocean Church in Estero.