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Southwest Florida awards went to projects in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hendry and Highlands counties. The projects ranged from $63,311 to add 1.1 miles of fiber optic cable in Bokeelia to $4.75 million to bring high speed internet service to eastern Hendry County. Other communities involved included Lehigh Acres in Lee County, Punta Gorda in Charlotte County and Orangetree and Golden Gate Estates in Collier County.

Gov. Ron DeSantis made a stop in Milton to personally hand the check for a $2.3 million rural broadband project for Santa Rosa County on Thursday.

A Stock Island-based commercial fisherman, his girlfriend and their unborn baby died early Sunday morning in a head-on collision on a highway in Glades County, Florida.

Lake Okeechobee got a much-needed upgrade, but school districts and Superintendents are continuing to feel the heat.

The releases from Lake Okeechobee will occur at a seven-day average steady release of 500 cubic feet per second to the St. Lucie Estuary at the St. Lucie Lock and Dam and at a seven-day average pulse release of 2,000 cubic feet per second to the Caloosahatchee Estuary from the W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam.