Larry Magel

The fiscal year 2013 budget and associated tax millage rates finally worked through the Marco Island City Council on Monday night, after months of departmental presentations, workshops, budget sub-committee sessions and council debates. City Manager Jim Riviere opened the meeting ...

Tempers flared Tuesday evening at the Marco Island City Council meeting. During a lengthy discussion of the city’s budget and millage rate, the council was on a path to approving the draft legislation o

Isaac changed course Sunday, sending fear to the Crescent City and leaving prepared Southwest Floridians waiting and wet.

Hurricane Isaac has made landfall in southeast Louisiana with winds near 80 mph. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm's center reached land at 6:45 p.m. in Plaquemines Parish, about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans.

The Marco Island City Council sat down for a butt-numbing all-day series of meetings on Monday, the kind of marathon budget talkathon that could make one question the mental state of those who are worki

The City Council intentionally kept their regularly scheduled meeting for Monday to a light agenda, so they could devote time to going over the proposed budget items for the upcoming Fiscal Year 2013.

The idea of a 24-hour walk-in clinic is likely off the table but there may be other ways to improve medical coverage in Marco Island, some city officials say.

Marco Island residents are saying “no” to taxing themselves to have a walk-in medical clinic stay open around the clock, according to early election results. In early returns in Collier County from absentee and early voting totals, about 71 percent ...

If Hideaway Beach residents were wondering whether they needed to approve an extension of the special taxing district that they pay for each year, recent events have provided a reminder. With the most recent loss of sand cau

Larry Magel, Marco Island City Council chairman and Jim Riviere, city manager, held a news conference on Friday to discuss the nonbinding referendum at City Hall.

If Marco Island voters support paying for a 'round-the-clock walk-in center, the tax could go into effect Jan. 1.

The Marco Island City Council has a non-binding referendum on the ballot that asks if residents would support a tax levy to cover the added costs of extending a walk-in clinic's hours to 24/7. The clinic would be run by ...

Contingents from both the homeowners and businesspeople camps sat through the discussion, although even with a significant number of citizens in the audience, the first two rows in the council chamber were empty, reminiscent of junior high school. The arguments ...

Waldack attends council meeting via telephone.

City Manager Jim Riviere hopes some last steps he is taking will finally separate the city’s utility company operations from running day-to-day city government. One of those steps reassigned Patricia Bliss and removed her from the city finance director position. ...