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A vehicle crash with injuries is blocking all eastbound lanes of U.S. 41 East near Airport-Pulling Road, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

In a patch of shaded grass, a pack of kids wearing bear masks and black smocks stood together, hands in the air, and let out a roar.

The small group of schoolchildren and their parents sat cross-legged and looked up. Inside the inflatable dome that doubled as a 3-D projection screen, they were part of something new.

Some say Collier County has an affordable housing crisis.

Marco Island City Council this week will consider repealing a controversial ordinance that has divided the island with its strict restrictions on rental properties, but critics of the ordinance say they don't believe it will be gone for good.

Authorities say the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college committed suicide as officers arrived.

It's been a slow recovery for Barbara Jimenez, the student from Immokalee who suffered a car crash in Cuba and remained hospitalized in Havana for nearly a month.

A single-vehicle crash on Interstate 75 in Collier County injured one person critically and left another person in serious condition early Saturday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

In the year since Curt Clawson entered politics, the Bonita Springs Republican has earned a reputation for bucking the GOP establishment.

Leaning back in his office chair at his company’s new Bonita Springs headquarters, a tan and clean-shaven Max Fata, with his red and white, high-top sneakers lurking from underneath his desk, glances at the rows of pink and blue razors arranged neatly in open boxes on foldable tables.