WGCU Staff

Community Blood Center, an affiliate of Naples Comprehensive Health, has critically low supplies of platelets and type O blood, and inventories for all other blood types are marginal.

Reser’s Fine Foods is recalling approximately 5,300 pounds of a ready-to-eat pasta salad due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reports.

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County is lifting the advisory for high bacterial levels at the Sanibel Causeway.

The majority of brushy wildfires that burst into flames across Southwest Florida since last weekend have either been contained or close to it.

Lee County encourages community to monitor conditions amid high heat.

As the nation celebrates America’s 250th anniversary, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is waiving admission fees for Florida state parks from Friday, July 3, through Sunday, July 5.

Lee County Health Department issues an advisory about enterococcus bacteria off Sanibel Causeway.

The ninth Florida panther death this year and the fifth female of the species was reported killed in Collier County in the past week. The remains of the big cat, a 3-year-old female, were collected June 19, on County Road 846 in Collier County, east of Immokalee. The suspected cause of death was vehicle collision.

Former global advertising executive Tim Love's 2025 book “The Medium is the Mirror: The Reformation of Truth Reshaping Our Relationships, Politics and Sacred Beliefs” explores the way our online world works, and how behavior data being collected on us is being used to shape our behavior. It was recently awarded first prize in the Business Marketing & Advertising category in the 2026 International Book Awards so we’re checking back in with him, and former Missouri Congressman and Democratic House Majority Leader, Dick Gephardt, who wrote the book's introduction.

Florida Forest Service units were working several fires around the state on Tuesday.