Enterprise reinforcing fireworks ordinance with public after significant New Year fire response

Enterprise is one of several jurisdictions within the Wiregrass that prohibits sale and use of fireworks within city limits.

Lee becomes latest county in Southwest Florida to enact burn ban

Conditions here are unusually dry, and NOAA says nearly all of the occupied parts of Southwest Florida are in a severe drought.

Thomas Coughlan: Big budgets and political stamina will count in a ‘very, very long’ election campaign

Thomas Coughlan, Political Editor at the New Zealand Herald, loves applying a political lens to people's stories and ...