Police, Fire and Courts

It’s like telling someone you don’t want to work with them anymore, yet they refuse to leave the office.

All lanes of Interstate 75 on Alligator Alley and State Road 29 in Collier County are now open.

The brush fire in the Big Cypress National Preserve has grown to 20,000 but is 40 percent contained, said Ryan Stubblebine, a spokesman for Big Cypress National Preserve this afternoon. Stubblebine said additional personnel and a hotshot crew from Virginia ...

Authorities are investigating the shooting of a 10-pound dog last week in a Goodland mobile home park. Hotkee, a white Shih Tzu-Chihuahua mix, underwent surgery at Big Cypress Animal Clinic after the 12:45 p.m. Wednesday shooting and survived. However, officers ...

A suspended Marco Island doctor jailed for three weeks will remain behind bars after a prosecutor objected to releasing him on bond Wednesday.

When Larry McKay gets up in the morning, he reaches for Kane to brace himself and walk through his Marco Island condo.

Firefighters are at the scene of three small brush fires in Golden Gate Estates.

Before jury selection began in his first-degree murder case Tuesday, a 22-year-old former Lely High School student accepted a 50-year plea agreement.

The Marco Police Foundation held their annual Lunch with the Chief on Friday, and along with recognizing the youngsters who completed the police and fire departments' summer camp, the bulk of the meeting was taken up with a discussion of ...

A Marco Island man is accused of punching his wife and then smashing a coffee pot and vases over his own head after his wife told him to quit smoking.

Collier County commissioners are set to meet Thursday to discuss emergency medical and fire services, and hot button issues like consolidation and ambulance transport will be on the agenda. The meeting is scheduled for the day after a joint meeting ...

“Every agency head of some tenure ... is going to encounter perplexing and odd, bizarre cases,” Hunter said in a phone interview with CNN. “This is mine.” More than eight years after Santos and Williams disa

Boaters are hoping Marco Island leaders will finally cut ties to their anchoring ordinance that became unenforceable when a state law passed three years ago.

A group of Collier County residents is hoping a proposal to create a cooperative administrative services organization will help Collier County's five independent fire districts streamline their administrative functions without changing what's done on the front lines.

A 17-year-old Naples male has been arrested after Marco Island police said he backed into a pole at Tommie Barfield Elementary School and left the scene.