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Land use application for Redfish Pointe withdrawn

An application for a land use change for Redfish Pointe, a first step needed for development, has been withdrawn. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, who represents ZZW Development LLC, sent the letter Feb. 3 to city Development Services Department Director Brett Limbaugh, withdrawing the Redfish ...

City hopes to have potential Yacht Club partner proposals by month’s end

COW Yacht Club Staff Presentation CIP REV1 (1) By the end of the month, Cape Coral City Council will learn if there are any potential private partners for the multi-million dollar rebuild of the Cape Coral Yacht Club. Faced with escalating costs, the city issued a request for information ...

Cape Coral man sentenced to 27 months for assassination threat

A Cape Cape man has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for claiming to have “orchestrated the most daring presidential assassination that this country has ever seen” in a letter sent to a Charlotte County jail official last year. Christopher Davies, 32, was sentenced by U.S. ...

FWC issues executive order regarding cold-stunned green iguanas

Find a cold-snapped iguana lying comatose in your yard? If you don't want the invasive reptile waking up and scurrying along your seawall once the weather warms up, you can drop it off at a collection point in Fort Myers today. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission issued an ...

More freezing weather on the way

The extreme cold weather conditions that have spread across the United States over the past few days arrived in the Sunshine State this week.  Southwest Florida saw a low of 38 degrees on Tuesday night, and a low of 39 Wednesday evening. Add in wind chills, temperatures felt like below ...