Author: WENG Newsroom

Punta Gorda Police have accused someone of exploiting an eldery woman and fraudulently using her credit card. Police say the daughter of the 87-year-old dementia patient found $1,600 in unauthorized transactions on two accounts. Helping Hands... Read More.

A Punta Gorda hot spot is getting a makeover. Last week, Fisherman's Village started a $40 million expansion and renovation project that will take five years to complete. Among the planned improvements are more... Read More.

36-year-old Jason Bridwell Tobin of Sarasota has been charged with felony DUI after he allegedly struck a bicyclist on South Tamiami Trail in Venice yesterday, according to Florida Highway Patrol. Tobin was arrested after... Read More.

If a reef can officially open for business, then nine of them did so yesterday in Charlotte Harbor. The new reefs were constructed just off Trabue Harborwalk in Punta Gorda in an effort to... Read More.

A Venice man has been tapped to head up the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. Mark Pritchett emerged from a five-month national search for a new president and CEO of the public charity, which distributes... Read More.

Florida is the worst state in the nation in terms of per capita identity theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and one Florida lawmaker is trying to help curb that trend. U.S. Rep.... Read More.

Sheriff's deputies in Charlotte County have staked out two stretches of road this week for drivers who speed. They pay particular attention to Ohara Drive in Port Charlotte, and McCall Road in Englewood between Beach... Read More.

At latest check, Punta Gorda police are still looking for a black GMC pickup truck that fled a traffic stop yesterday morning. Officers had stopped the truck in the Winn-Dixie parking lot on Bermont... Read More.

Since the beginning of June, an average of nearly three feet of rain has fallen across southwest Florida, most of that coming over the past month or so. Forecasters predict a stronger El Nino... Read More.

Sarasota Middle School was evacuated earlier this afternoon after the school district received reports of a natural gas odor near the facility. Once gas service was shut off, firefighters tested around and inside the... Read More.