Two Sarasota County projects won 2026 Heritage Awards earlier this month. Given to individuals, organizations and buildings by the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation, the Awards honor efforts to maintain pieces of local history.

The shooting of a Minneapolis woman and mother was the focus of protest events in Southwest Florida.

He has been cited as helping save lives during some of the worst weather in Southwest Florida history. One of the area's top weather forecasters, Matt Devitt, has been let go from his position at WINK News.

FGCU Police officers, faculty and students rallied together over the holidays to help sick children across Florida. They collected more than 2,000 toys in December for Heroes Unmasked, a local non-profit that sends superheroes to children's hospitals and into the homes of chronically and terminally ill children to visit and pass out donated toys.

The South County Regional Library is back open after 14 months of renovations costing more than $10 million. A ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 7 celebrated the accomplishment.

Brother and sister Ray and Cindy Carroll enjoy the generations-deep family tradition of exploring the Everglades in swamp buggies.

An annual project, the holiday house brings together building industry associates all over Lee County to surprise a homeowner with a complete remodel.

Holiday motorists going a bit too fast through a school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway might receive an onion from the Grinch instead of a traffic ticket. Colonel Lou Caputo, who recently retired from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, donned the Grinch costume Friday morning to stage an awareness-raising holiday traffic patrol at Key Largo School.

From creamy to crunchy, thousands of jars of peanut butter are making their way into Florida homes, thanks to the generosity of residents statewide, who rallied behind this year’s Peanut Butter Challenge – feeding families one jar at a time. All those jars add up to 44,564 pounds of peanut butter, and every ounce counts, said Kevin Camm, director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Extension Orange County.