This week the Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers hosts its annual Fair Housing Summit , this year is paying special attention to the federal Fair Housing Act , which states landlords cannot discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin when renting or selling a home. But how do these laws impact short-term rentals in Southwest Florida?

More people are seeking damages from insurance companies because of dog incidents. In Florida, 68 people filed insurance claims saying a dog had injured them , that’s up from 58 the previous year, totaling more than $2.8 million in claims.

A small food business started and run by Immokalee High School students is paying for its expansion through a unique socially-minded funding effort. Taste of Immokalee , the student-run business that uses Immokalee-grown produce to make salsas, hot sauces, and more, sought socially-minded investors in its goal to raise a quarter of a million dollars as it looks to expand. The outreach ultimately led to the creation of a unique fund by Naples-based investors to help the students' unique business.

SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome , has long been the sad epitaph to explain the unexplainable: the inexplicable death of otherwise healthy babies. Improvements in health care and education have pushed SIDS out of the headlines in recent years, but researchers continue their efforts to better understand and ultimately end SIDS in our lifetime.

North Korea dominates headlines for it's missile programs, assassinations, and other acts that have earned it the nickname as "the Hermit Kingdom." But a new documentary screening at Florida Gulf Coast University Thursday, Apr. 6 at 7 p.m. hopes to show how a new generation of North Korean millennials are challenging the nation's ruling elite and may be the country's best hope for change.

This year the dry season has been abnormally dry , which has earned Southwest Florida the classification of being in a “severe” drought by the National Weather Service . Fire officials say that drought is now prime fuel for wildfires.

In the environmentally sensitive landscape of Southwest Florida, there are a few endangered or threatened species that tend to take center stage. In recent weeks, species ranging from manatees to panthers to burrowing owls have made headlines over significant changes to the laws designed to protect them.

As with Florida's Amendment 4 , the expansion of medical marijuana in Florida was approved by more than 70 percent of voters in November through Amendment 2. And just as Amendment 4's property tax exemptions for solar power saw rules heaped on the bill as it became law , the process of formalizing the medical marijuana amendment has seen major changes from what voters approved at the polls.

Private aerospace manufacturer and space delivery company SpaceX made history last week when it successfully re-launched and re-landed a rocket that had already made one trip to low-Earth orbit . With roughly 70 percent of a rocket's cost sunk in the rocket, SpaceX's reuse of an orbital rocket represents a breakthrough for the economics of space exploration.

Cuts by the Florida Department of Agriculture will eliminate a supplemental food program used by nearly 2,300 low income seniors in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties, according to department officials and distributing agency, the Harry Chapin Food Bank . The cuts go into effect Jul. 1. The cuts are through the federal Commodity Supplemental Food Program , administered by Florida's Department of Agriculture since January 2015. The state agricultural agency says it's eliminating the program in