Fort Myers

The city of Fort Myers recently celebrated the grand reopening of Roberto Clemente Park.

It appears City of Palms Park in Fort Myers will be torn down. That's the initial decision of city leaders about the former spring training home of the Boston Red Sox.

Nearly 100 years has passed since Dunbar High School first opened its door to students to provide the black community of Southwest Florida with the same educational standards as everyone else.

Attendees lined up for dishes from Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and other Asian vendors for the traveling Saigon Night Market.

An event designed to feel more like a shared living-room experience than a formal concert is coming to Fort Myers.

A local mikvah was dedicated by Arlene Silver in memory of her mother, Bernice Orkin Kaye. The renewed building now bears her Hebrew name, Bashka. During the ribbon-cutting ceremony, speakers reflected on the three-year journey to rebuild the sacred space.

In light of the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, local nonprofit organizations are feeling the brunt of the impacts as a lapse in SNAP benefits persist causing individuals as well as families to function without food for extended periods of time. Find out how one organization in particular is taking extra steps to help not only its clients, but also other local organizations weathering the storm of SNAP uncertainty.

The Hall of 50 States sits like a battered, beaten and starved stray dog waiting for a new owner to find him and take him home. It looks like a new owner finally has arrived. Fort Myers City Council, at a workshop this week, gave their unofficial approval to Jim Becker and his plans to refurbish the nearly 100-year-old building on Edwards Drive in downtown.

After Florida bans rainbow crosswalks, a Fort Myers church paints its own tribute to Pulse victims.

A Immokalee-based organization is reporting that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, aided by Fort Myers Police and the Lee County Sheriff's Office in some areas, were in several locations today across Lee County.