Chad Gillis

The Collier Mosquito Control District is using sterile males to fight the overall population. It's one of the newer techniques for battling these biting bugs, and it doesn't add any type of insecticide or chemical to the landscape.

Residents and visitors often see swallow-tailed kites flashing overhead during the spring months as they hunt just above the tree canopies.

The Naples-Fort Myers area is already seeing drought conditions, and it will be almost two months before daily rains start to fall this summer.

A low-pressure system will work its way across Southwest Florida Wednesday, and rain chances will be their highest in the afternoon-to-evening hours.

Southwest Florida has reached the midway point in the dry season, which runs from October through May. This season has been dry, with Fort Myers almost 2 inches behind on rain.

Now environmental advocates are worried the multi-billion-dollar, multi-decade Everglades restoration may be in jeopardy.

City Manager Dan Souza says Sanibel is ready to move forward with a position he says will be key to the future of the island.

Alexandra Fasulo's Matlacha home was destroyed by storm surge during Hurricane Ian in 2022, so she bought a property near her mother's home at the time, in Cape Coral.

Phil Klotzbach, professor with Colorado State University, told the group that 2024 was a weird hurricane season, and 2025 is a coin toss now.

Researchers at the University of Central Florida studied the Florida panther and whether past genetic introductions have made the big cat more vulnerable.