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A COVID-19 response team has spent the past year building trust in a community that was ravaged by the pandemic. Theyre needed now more than ever.

She said the building was demolished at exactly 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Independence Day, and it fell according to plan, toward Collins Avenue, away from the existing rubble pile, which was covered with a tarp to protect it from dust from the implosion. By 1 a.m. Monday, rescue crews were back to a full search-and-rescue operation.  “The demolition was executed flawlessly. And the rescue team said none of the existing pile, where there are victims still, was affected,” Surfside Mayor Charles ...

Calusa Harbour Senior Living is laying off 79 employees as part of a corporate decision to close skilled nursing units at some long-term care communities around the country.

Ron DeSantis, the 42-year-old governor of Florida, is doing the kinds of things that presidential candidates do. Will he run for president in 2024?

Gathering at a trailhead off Alligator Alley Saturday morning, about 40 people stood in a large circle, heads bowed. They were listening to Betty Osceola, an elder with the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, give a prayer near the southern end of the Florida Trail. The group was about to embark on a southbound hike, following a marked trail through wet prairies, pinewood flats and dwarf cypresses. The journey, about four miles in and four miles back, is an effort to inform and educate the public o...

Labor of love behind Southwest Florida Vietnam Veterans Memorial For almost 50 years, Vietnam has been etched into Charles Reed’s life. And now he wants to help leave an indelible and historical mark to honor those who fought in the war. Reed is working on two projects. Gary Bowler, president of the Veterans Midpoint Memorial Charitable Trust, his wife Judy, Stuart Berman of North Fort Myers and Renalto Camelio of Cape Coral all have been working with Reed. For 11 years, Reed worked on findin...

Nearly 263,000 people in Collier and Lee counties have received at least one vaccine dose. Statewide, more than 4.2 million people have been vaccinated.   Through March 13, about 221,000 people age 65 and older in Collier and Lee counties have received at least one vaccine dose. Across Florida, more than 2.9 million seniors have been vaccinated. Based on Census population estimates for age 65 and older residents, about 69% of Collier seniors and 59% of Lees have gotten at least one COVID-19...

The expansion brings the number of CVS vaccination sites to 157 in 30 Florida counties.

He was a foster kid. So he biked 3,100 miles to help foster kids. Sarah Page Kyrcz FacebookTwitterEmail GUILFORD — It all started when foster kid Noah Ehlert got his very first bike at age 13. Decades later, through sunshine and freezing temperatures, rain, hail and dust storms, Ehlert rode his bicycle from California to Florida with one thing on his mind: Children living in foster care. The Guilford resident’s 3,100-mile bike trek, across the lower 48, in early 2020, was four years in the ...

6 sun-soaked homes in Florida The Week Staff Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Key West. Built in 1934, this extensively renovated home is in the historic Meadows district. The two-bedroom, open-plan main house has cathedral ceilings, Dade pine floors, a master bath with fish-scale tile, and a great room with French doors to the pool. The double lot has wood decks, brick paths, tropical plantings, a two-bedroom ...