Collier County News

A closer look inside the expanded NICU at the North Naples Hospital reveals why families are grateful for the new space to handle their special little family additions who need big support.

A Collier County man who asked deputies to show him "some professional courtesy" was arrested Friday and charged with DUI, authorities said.

The Smallwood Store and Museum, built 100 years ago as a trading post, sits on the shore of Chokoloskee Bay and is chock full of items from the past.

Southwest Florida has seen multiple drownings already this summer. But, Collier County officials are working to prevent it from happening again.

An East Naples man is accused of holding a gun to a woman's head and threatening to kill her after she called him an expletive for selling narcotics out of their home.

David Ceilley and his son Connor weren't surprised last week when they pulled two clear-plastic fish traps from Owl Creek in East Lee County.

The uproar that resulted led to a $25,000 fine, testing of the groundwater and now an announcement from Hughes that it's ending its drilling work in Collier County.

Sixteen local elementary schools will have to stay open an extra hour for the entirety of the 2014-15 school year after making the state's "Low 300" list for reading performance.

Some Lee and Collier County elementary school students will spend an extra hour in school everyday after they made the list of 300 low performing schools in Florida.

Naples, Fla. - Collier commission candidate Penny Taylor has raised $60,840, edging ahead of the $58,443 pulled in by her Republican primary opponent Lavigne Kirkpatrick.

On Friday, the Dan A. Hughes Company announced they will stop oil and natural gas exploration drilling in Collier County, excluding the current Collier Hogan project.

Naples Police arrested a nursing assistant this week for stealing the iPad mini of a 94-year-old resident of a retirement community where she worked.

NAPLES, Fla. - Preliminary data released by the state Friday estimates the Collier County School District will remain a "B" school district while Lee County increased from a "C" to a "B."

The Collier County Sheriff's Office is conducting traffic enforcement at the following locations: Collier Boulevard and I-75 southbound exit aggressive driving; U.S. 41 North and Pine Ridge Road red-light running; Airport-Pulling Road and Golden Gate Parkway red-light running The Lee County Sheriff's Office's Traffic Unit will target at least one ... (more)

Randi Izdonavicius shows her 19-month old daughter, Isla, artworks created in the Greater Naples YMCA's "Yellow Ducks" program for toddlers at a gallery opening at the Collier County Sheriff's Office on July 10, 2014.

A proposed fire district merger in Collier County feels more like a take over to local firefighters.

A Collier County teacher is waiting for the school board to decide her fate after a district investigation determine she inappropriately helped students on tests.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla.- Investigators are still searching for answers, a day after two Naples Police officers were involved in a domestic dispute that left one of them dead and the other in Intensive Care at Lee Memorial Hospital.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.- There was a major development overnight in the arrests of four men suspected of taking part in several violent home invasions in Collier County.

In case I need to say it again, I will. Because of Rick Scott, we now have an oil company that is currently conducting fracking in our Everglades .