As the new coronavirus continues to spread we're doing our best to keep you well informed with accurate and up to date information. W e'll be live on the air with Dr. Douglas Brust , he is an infectious diseases specialist with Lee Health ; Lisa Sgarlata , Chief Patient Care Officer for Lee Health; and Florida Gulf Coast University molecular virologist, Dr. Sharon Isern . Check out our Facebook page for a post where you can add your questions before or during show.

Ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic has largely brought Southwest Florida’s arts and culture offerings to a grinding halt. Still, local artists practicing social distancing and self-isolation are doing what they can to keep performing and stay connected through social media.

As the rapidly evolving situation concerning the COVID-19 outbreak dominates news headlines, the Florida Legislature’s recently closed annual session isn’t getting as much attention as it has in past years. On March 19, state lawmakers passed a $93.2 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

People are being encouraged to stay at home as much as possible as the Covid-19 outbreak continues to spread, and restaurants have been ordered to close their doors and only offer delivery or pickup, so many people are finding themselves in the kitchen more than usual.

As the new coronavirus continues to spread we're doing our best to keep you well informed with accurate and up to date information. On today's show we're focusing in on Lee County with Dr. Douglas Brust , he is an infectious diseases specialist with Lee Health ; and Lisa Sgarlata , Chief Patient Care Officer for Lee Health, and who is running the Incident Command Center for the COVID-19 situation.

Tuesday’s elections in the city of Naples were an upset for incumbents. Voters in Naples chose a new mayor and three new city councilors. Former Naples Councilwoman and former account executive in the private sector Teresa Heitmann defeated incumbent Mayor Bill Barnett.

In Southwest Florida, more than 63,000 people are employed in the service industry – that means hotels and restaurants, and another 73,000 work in retail.

Almost two decades ago Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives. She built her own bee hive, ordered bees, and was soon harvesting honey.

We listen back to our conversation from earlier this year about an exhibition at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Wilson G. Bradshaw Library documenting the little-known rescue of survivors from an all-female Nazi camp. “ To Life: The Liberation of Ravensbrück ” explores how the Swedish Red Cross liberated about 15,500 survivors from the camp in what’s been dubbed the “ White Bus Rescue ” in 1945.

The inaugural season of Players Circle Theatre continues with the company’s upcoming production of the “ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time .” The play is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by British author Mark Haddon. The story centers on the perspective of its lead character, a 15-year-old math savant seemingly on the autism spectrum, who embarks on an investigation into the murder of his neighbor’s dog and ends up discovering some much more impactful truth about