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Expect mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies today with a few scattered rain and thundershowers forming by late afternoon into the evening.

For two chefs from Norman Love Confections, the taste of success was, indeed, sweet.

Naples Botanical Garden, 4820 Bayshore Drive, is open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (8 a.m. on Tuesdays).

Art teachers are hearing a constant drumbeat technolearning, when studies have consistently shown the arts enhance almost all other fields. Some 550 of them are in Naples this weekend to talk about what it's like to be an art teacher in this atmosphere, and how they make lemonade out of lemons.

A Bonita Springs woman whose home was the site of an "extreme case" of animal hoarding has left the state before she could be charged with animal cruelty, according to Lee County Domestic Animal Services.

The husband of a missing Collier County woman was arrested Tuesday in Orlando after being accused of fatally shooting a hotel employee there.

Thanks to Naples council members, there are reasons for the city to celebrate the year’s end and 2016 with fireworks.

A Collier County circuit judge threw out a suit Thursday against school district Superintendent Kamela Patton, in which she was accused of circumventing the state's open meetings laws ahead of the implementation of the Blue Zones initiative in local public schools.

WASHINGTON — It was over in just minutes and almost no one saw it coming.

BQ Concrete, a longtime Collier County contractor that dissolved recently amid allegations of fraud, owes one of its subcontractors $40,288 for work it did last year to build storage bays on a county lot, a judge ruled Thursday.