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Hertz is speeding toward the finish line on its new headquarters in Estero.

“It’s fun to be in real estate again.” Forget recent stock market volatility: Real estate experts say the outlook for Southwest Florida’s economic future is sunny.

A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a single-vehicle crash in North Naples on Friday afternoon.

Marco Island Academy is closer to a permanent school site after a Marco Island couple loaned the charter school $2 million to purchase a property on the island's east side.

Greeting cards and stuffed animals line the windowsill in Marcela Ortega's room on the sixth floor of the Rehabilitation Hospital at Lee Memorial.

Julie Glenn takes a look at the Southwest Florida wine scene.

Students lined the walkway at NCEF Early Childhood Development Center on Friday, as more than two dozen early learning advocates finished a tour of the place.

The Hodges University Identity Fraud Institute is offering workshops to introduce and raise awareness of the many forms of identity theft and how to identify each. Topics will include smartphone privacy, credit fraud, medical identity theft, social media safety and phishing emails. Registration information: Hodges.edu/identity/events

Traditionally, the answer to that question might be East Naples. The term covers a sizable area; considerable but undefined — from the waterfront Brookside neighborhood (off Davis Boulevard), to gated golf communities such as Eagle Creek, on the way to Marco Island (off

Fire officials say a gas leak caused an explosion in the boiler room of a penthouse at a Miami-area high-rise, injuring at least four people.