How a potential government shutdown affects a tour company in the Everglades

The government is now funded through the beginning of December. But a shutdown is still possible and it could affect a lot of people, including Capt. Charles Wright, who owns Everglades Area Tours. He has owned the business since 1999. The Everglades are part of the National Park Service System, which shuts down when the […]

Fort Myers close to regaining ownership of City of Palms Park

Leaders are in a renewed back-and-forth over a baseball stadium — once the spring training home to the Boston Red Sox. The City of Fort Myers is one step closer to owning City of Palms Park again. As of Wednesday, both the county and the city are on the same page to move forward with […]

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Collier County Sheriff’s Office finds fugitive couple

According to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office in Washington, a Naples man is accused of being a “prolific” identity thief. Anatoly V. Kutsar, 38, had been the subject of investigations by Clark County since February. In March, a search warrant revealed that there were nearly 20 identification cards from Oregon, Florida, Washington, and Texas. All […]

Fort Myers will increase Centennial Park project budget

Fort Myers City Council increased the budget for the Centennial Park construction project Monday by more than $800,000. It pushes the total from $2 million to a little more than $2.8 million. It’s the latest in a series of changes, but Mayor Kevin Anderson told us it won’t hold up the estimated completion of park […]

WINK News Special: Inside the COVID Unit

WINK News takes you inside a COVID ICU where hospital staff is working around the clock to save the lives of patients. You’ll feel the pain the doctors and nurses suffer through every hour of every day. You’ll see the stress they can’t erase from their faces. And you’ll hear the agony because they know […]

Cape Coral Hospital COVID-19 ICU: ‘My patients are my why’

We continue to report on the stories of health professionals at Cape Coral Hospital’s COVID-19 intensive care unit. They gave us an inside look at the front line of the pandemic. They explained to us their unit is no place any patient wants to find themselves. But once patients are there, the staff members at […]

Lee Health doctors stress vaccines prevent hospitalization for COVID-19

Lee Health reports 394 COVID-19 patients being treated as of Tuesday morning, with 29 new admissions Monday. We asked Lee Health Dr. Sephanie Stovall what percent of patients put on ventilators get off them alive. “We don’t have an exact percentage or number because it’s so patient specific,” Stovall explained. So we asked is unvaccinated […]