Hendry County News

The School Board meeting starts at 5 p.m. and will be held at district headquarters, 4204 Okeechobee Road, Fort Pierce.

On Wednesday May 8, East County Water Control District hosted the first in a series of four community presentations in honor of its 55th Anniversary.

David Albers/Staff - Ethanol is produced from algae and saltwater contained in reactors at Algenol Biofuels on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, in South Fort Myers.

A bitter legal dispute over who's responsible for a failed land deal in Hendry County at the height of the boom could be close to resolution after six years.

Public schools likely will see more money in the coming year, but some Southwest Florida educators say the lack of details makes it difficult to get excited about a bigger budget.

Traffic Stop Ends With Rear Ending By Hendry Deputy's Car CLEWISTON, FL. -- Helene Maria Egger, 59 of Lana, Italy was traveling with her family west on U.S. 27 in the outside lane in western Hendry county as a marked Hendry County Sheriff's department patrol car, driven by Michael Angelo Favara, 38 of LaBelle was traveling west on U.S. 27 in the ... (more)

The money is in the budget, but Florida teachers aren't entirely optimistic they will have more cash in their pockets during the coming school year.

A 27-year-old Miami woman was killed in a car crash that happened along SR-80 in Hendry County.

HENDRY COUNTY, Fla.- The Florida Forest Service will be conducting a 40-acre prescribed burn on the Okaloacoochee Slough State Forest in rural Hendry County.

A three-vehicle crash at State Road 80 and Wellington Parkway in Hendry County on Thursday afternoon left one dead.

A bitter legal dispute over who's responsible for a failed land deal in Hendry County at the height of the boom could be close to resolution after six years.

Hendry County Sheriff Steve Whidden and the Hendry County Sheriff's Office Community Policing Unit are hosting its Annual Community Fun Day for friends and neighbors to come together for an enjoyable and informative day Saturday, April 27.

Affordable, disability-accessible housing will soon be available in Clewiston. Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida has broken ground on Sweetwater Place, an income-subsidized apartment complex for people with physical disabilities Sweetwater Place will be Goodwill's fourteenth housing complex in Southwest Florida, and first in Clewiston.

Back in the 1990s', Gene McAvoy, UF Extension, Hendry County, was wandering through a heavily wooded area of pine trees near Buckingham after a summer's rain.

This story is contributed by a member of the Naples community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Naples Daily News CARF International announced that Southwest Florida Addiction Services has been accredited for a period of three years for all of its substance abuse treatment and prevention programs.

Luther Charles Davis, age 75, of Clewiston , passed away April 20, 2013 in Clewiston.

The latest numbers from the federal government show that St. Johns County's unemployment rate in March was 2 percent lower than the previous year and among the lowest in the state at 5.3 percent.

Wendy Pritchard left talks to Mid-Florida Housing Partnership's Mylene Valderrama during a regional job fair at Deltona City Hall in Deltona on Friday morning Mar.

Manatee County's March unemployment stood at 6.7 percent, which is a about a half percent below February's job numbers, according to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

Will Airport Eventually Be Turned Over To U.S. Sugar Interests? LABELLE, FL. -- The Hendry County commissioners in September 2012 voted 4-0 to go ahead with spending more money for legal work on the possibility of turning over the Airglades Airport in central Hendry county to the private interests of U.S. Sugar, Joe Hilliard, and a principal of a ... (more)