The Lee County Sheriff's Office has identified Santos Tiul-Chen, 17; Victor Pedro-Gaspar, 19, and Pedro Miguel Pascual, 21, as the three people who drowned on Saturday in the river near the Franklin ...

Calusa Waterkeeper will welcome Dr. Gregg Poulakis of the Fish and Wildlife Research Center, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to discuss the endangered smalltooth sawfish, sharing ...

Portions of the railroad tracks crossing the Caloosahatchee River in east Fort Myers appeared to be shredded from the pilings by Hurricane Ian. The tracks, owned by the Seminole Gulf Railway, run ...

Three young men drowned after swimming in the Caloosahatchee River near the Franklin Lock in Alva, Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office has identified the three who drowned on Saturday May 18 as ...

Expansion of red tide blooms from Estero Bay in Lee County to northern Sarasota Bay can be directly linked to the volume of nitrogen-rich water released from rivers following hurricanes, according to ...

The FWC continues to probe the Cape Coral boat crash that killed three people just over two weeks ago. The cause has not yet ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Over the weekend, the Army Corps of Engineers reduced releases from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee river. Yet, in a recent memo from the city of Cape Coral, algae blooms ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced on Monday that it found two Florida panther kittens north of the Caloosahatchee River, which is good news for Florida’s big cats. So far ...

The Caloosahatchee River is starved of freshwater at times, and it’s going to be another five years before the state can meet water quantity standards that were first adopted 16 years ago. Scientists ...

Restoring meadows of eel grass in the tidal draws of southwest Florida's major estuary is a key goal of the priciest construction project ever approved by water district managers — a more than ...

FORT MYERS (AP) — Caloosahatchee River flows are looking good at a time when algae is absent from the entire system, and other health indicators seem promising as the region transitions into the brunt ...

A restoration project in the Caloosahatchee River has wrapped up its second phase as workers planted seagrass in three upstream areas. To date, Sea & Shoreline, in partnership with the Angler Action ...