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A Southwest Florida nurse practitioner is headed back to Ukraine to offer her helping hand. Andrea Leiner knows all too well the reality of what she’ll be facing when she gets there. “The hospital we are at has had a couple of mass casualty events that were results from rocket attacks,” Leiner said. Leiner is […]

Firefighters continued working to put out the fire at MW Horticulture on Monday. They enlisted help from Florida Forest Service helicopters to fight the fire from above. Since Sunday morning, the mulch pile has been burning, and firefighters are warning the smoke will be noticeable until at least the end of the day on Monday. […]

Evelina is three months old. She’s a happy little girl, too young to realize there’s a major war happening, and too young to understand she’s a refugee. Evelina’s parents, Oleskii and Lyudamila Barskovech fled Ukraine on February 28 along with their two other children – Emiliia and Daniel. They slept in airports and traveled on […]

One state is making a bold statement about a controversial Florida law. New York is launching a campaign that says, “come to a city where you can say what you want.” The message surrounded by the word gay obviously denounces the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, which limits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender […]

With so many fires popping up in Southwest Florida, now is a great time to have a game plan for if a fire starts near your home. Those who live in Golden Gate Estates know what loss looks like. It looks like insulation on living room floors. It looks like heaps of metal where houses […]

We first introduced you to 79-year-old Sandy Bilsky in January 2021. Sandy needed a new kidney, and no one in his family was a match. So, he humbled himself and allowed Reporter Erika Jackson to follow his journey to find a stranger willing to donate a kidney to save his life. As many as 40 […]

Mercy Chefs, a faith-based nonprofit that distributes food in disaster zones, is documenting its current work with people trying to survive the conflict in Ukraine, taking photographs and videos that show the faces of war. Men, women and children, whole families in Ukraine are pictured holding food, oranges, baby formula, cases of water, and more. […]

US Representative Val Demings made her rounds for day two of her ‘affordability tour’ in Southwest Florida. On Thursday, she met with people from the democratic party. Lee county democrats held a luncheon event called ‘Flip Florida Blue.’ Democratic Congresswoman Demings took to the podium and told the crowd confidently that she could flip Republican […]

Florida Congresswoman Val Demings is on a three-day tour to explain why she will be the one to make housing affordable in Florida. Demings is campaigning for the Senate seat that Republican Marco Rubio currently holds. Val Demings is currently a representative for the western Orlando area. There is not much that is affordable in […]

Five people were busted after authorities say they went on a crime spree. The violent offenses include a single-vehicle crash, a hit-and-run crash, two stolen vehicles, a police chase and numerous burglaries. It began on March 9, when three men and one woman entered a store and stole an employee’s work vest which contained their […]