Marco Island News

There was a blockage in the right northbound lane of Pine Ridge Road. Also use caution on the Alligator Alley section of Interstate 75 because of smoke near mile marker 54 near Ochopee.

Athletic directors from the 14 schools - Barron Collier, Community School, Estero, First Baptist, Golden Gate, Gulf Coast, Immokalee, Lely, Marco Island Academy, Naples, Palmetto Ridge, Seacrest, St. John Neumann and South Fort Myers - in the Daily News' coverage area were contacted and asked to have their coaches nominate players.

Fiddler's Creek announced the grand opening of the Washington luxury model at Chiasso, a village of 59 single-family residences within the luxury, master-planned community.

He is accused of pushing and threatening a woman. a- Walter Lasek, 21, of the 700 block of 98th Avenue North, North Naples, was arrested Friday by Collier deputies at home.

Below is a list of some Easter Sunday Services around Southwest Florida: City of Palms Park When: 6:30 a.m. Where: City of Palms Park, downtown Fort Myers Cape Coral Yacht Club When: 7 a.m. Where: 5819 Driftwood Parkway, Cape Coral First Baptist Church of LaBelle When: 7 a.m. Where: Barron Park, LaBelle First United Methodist Church Naples When: 7 ... (more)

The Association of Free Community Papers announced the winners of its annual Best of the Best competition at an industry conference held at Disney World in Orlando over the weekend of April 4. Publications from across the United States and Canada were represented.

Darrell Loan shakes hands with the First Lady of Florida Ann Scott. Loan attended a reception at the Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee with author Tom Williams and his wife, Vicki.

Sgt. Hector Diaz was named Policeman of the Year for 2013. It's an honor more distinguished by the fact it is chosen by peers.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation was ordered last month to pay a Collier County couple $6,720 in legal and other fees for failing to provide records as required by the state's open records law.

A Collier County woman is outraged after receiving a postcard in the mail with a grade on her voting history.

Recently, the leaders from a number of not-for-profit 501 3 organizations announced the formation of the Cultural Alliance of Marco Island & Goodland .

Surveillance video obtained by Crime Stoppers shows masked men moments before they burst into a home and held a family at gunpoint.

Soapfest, one of Marco Island's most beloved charity events for almost two decades, returns for its annual weekend festival featuring daytime celebrity actors and signature events to raise funds for local children's charities.

Gene Erjavec, left, Andrew Smith, Jordan Davidson and Scoutmaster Dan Davidson sort through the debris in a wooden sifter.

This architectural concept of the new Mackle Park Community Center is part of a brochure provided by the Marco Island Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee to explain why the island needs the center.

Water and sewer hookups for 53 homes in Naples' Bembury Drive Assessment Area will cost each $24,376 - or nearly $37,000 over 20 years.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.- The Collier County Sheriff's Office is buying an updated dispatch system that will loop in every firefighter, deputy, police officer and paramedic to get to your emergency faster.

Miami-Dade engineering officials say the Venetian Causeway can’t handle heavy Metrobus traffic.

Betty Hernandez is no stranger to Marco Island, nor is her family a stranger to living the dream of opportunity in America.

This story is contributed by a member of the Naples community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Naples Daily News Wright Construction Group has started construction of additional structural space in the residents' dining area at The Springs, Shell Point Retirement Community's month-to-month private pay assisted living facility in Fort ... (more)