Jorge Murillo

The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA, aims to make homeownership more accessible to long-time renters.

Housing

Nonprofit event in Fort Myers helps people overcome financial barriers to homeownership

Jorge Murillo

NACA's mortgage program offers no down payment, no closing costs and has no credit score requirements. Instead, the organization checks participants’ payment and income history.

FPL and Community Cooperative volunteers assemble hurricane meal kits for seniors who may not be able to leave their homes immediately after a storm. Each kit includes three days of shelf-stable food, water and snacks.

Human Interest

Florida Power & Light and Community Cooperative distribute meal kits to 500 Lee County seniors

Jorge Murillo

With hurricane season officially underway, it’s time for Southwest Floridians to make emergency preparations in the event of a storm. But what about those older residents unable to build hurricane emergency kits on their own? There is help available.

Lee County Mosquito Control will operate a Skydio X10 drone to aid in releasing sterile mosquitos that will target the virus-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Environment

Lee County Mosquito Control unveils new drone to release sterile mosquitoes

Jorge Murillo

The Lee County Mosquito Control District has reached a new milestone, becoming the first to release sterile mosquitoes by drone.

Illegal dumping is upsetting some people in Lehigh Acres. Lee County said it is trying to address the problem.

Human Interest

'It’s everywhere.' Ubiquitous illegal dumping has some in Lehigh Acres fed up

Jorge Murillo

About 95 percent of all illegal dumping in Lee County happens in Lehigh Acres, according to a heatmap provided by the county.