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With single-family sale prices continuing a steady ascent, the regional real estate market continues its steady ascent.
In Charlotte County, the median sales price — which means half the homes sold for more, half for less — for a single-family home last m...

MURDOCK — Charlotte County commissioners heard from a panel of experts Wednesday on the pros and cons of using a municipal service benefit unit, or MSBU, to pay for a multimillion-dollar sewer expansion project in the East and West Spring Lake area of Por...

An e-mail from city Finance Director Renee Green to Arcadia Police Department Marshal Matt Anderson has sparked questions about a possible fractured relationship between the city’s administration and the APD.
The e-mail, dated August 13, was sent to And...

The Arcadia City Council unanimously approved nearly $30,000 for studies to examine the feasibility of adding special assessments to both the city’s storm water and fire.
City Administrator Judith Jankosky presented the proposals to the board, saying the...

During a contentious meeting, which at one point had Councilman Joe Fink requesting a member of the audience be removed, the Arcadia City Council agreed to proceed to its Sept. 3 public budget hearing with an Arcadia Police Department budget set at $1.4 m...

She was bubbly and full of grace.
Always smiling, always able to find the positive in any situation.
Those who knew Dr. Rosalie Robbins, whether personally or professionally, described her the same way — passionate about everything she did and always happ...

Lily Seltzer, 90, has lived in Port Charlotte for six years, and she visits the Friends of Port Charlotte Library bookstore at the Cultural Center of Charlotte County every day. She drinks coffee, chats with librarians and other regulars and, of course, r...

Phoenix — an American bald eagle that was shocked by a power line in January and rescued — was released Wednesday morning in Punta Gorda by Peace River Wildlife Center veterinarian Robin Jenkins. Phoenix’s seventh-month recovery at the center was about a ...

WASHINGTON — Seniors who were threatened with the loss of their benefits if they did not trade in their paper checks for Social Security benefits paid through a debit card or electronic deposit may be getting a reprieve.
The Treasury Department has agreed...

Elmore Leonard, a masterful crime novelist whose razor-sharp dialogue and indelibly realized lowlifes earned him an unusual mix of mass-market appeal and highbrow acclaim, died Aug. 20 at his home in Bloomfield Township, Mich. He was 87.
The cause was com...