On Thursday of this week the City of Cape Coral is going to be presenting a fossil bone to the Cape Coral Historical Museum during a reception hosted by the Cape Coral Historical Society. The large bone fragment, which archeologists say likely belonged to a woolly mammoth or mastodon, was discovered about 17 feet underground during a utilities extension project. News of the bone’s discovery caught our eye, so we’re sitting down with Wendy Schroder, President of the Cape Coral Historical Society,

Grieving the loss of a loved one is difficult for anyone, but when children lose a parent or sibling, the loss can be particularly profound. We’re joined today by the Founder and CEO of a local non-profit called Valerie’s House that works to help families and children struggling with loss. She says they’ve seen a spike in the number of kids who need help following the overdose death of a parent or sibling, and that right now about a quarter of children who need grief support is struggling with

Tropical Storm Gordon seemed to sneak up on Southwest FLorida over the Labor Day holiday weekend. We're checking in with someone who's been tracking it all along -- and continues to do so -- Meteorologist Jeff Huffman with the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network .

We’re re-airing an hour of live music from our performance studio with FGCU’s Jazz Quartet which originally aired in January . If you like live jazz music on the radio, mark your calendar for Thursday, October 4th when we’ll be having another group of jazz musicians from FGCU’s music program back on the show for another hour of live tunes. We were joined by Florida Gulf Coast University’s Director of Jazz Studies, Brandon Robertson , and the school’s jazz quartet, which featured Alec Prorock on

Fifty years ago today the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was wrapping up, after three days of violent protest, and political tensions inside the convention hall. It was all unfolding in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. four months before, and Robert F. Kennedy two months before. In some ways it was a turning point in American politics, and American culture. The Vietnam War was in its 13th year, and there were riots happening in more than 100 cities across the

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum ’s upset victory in Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary was the big surprise last night, as election results came in. Sen. Bernie Sanders-endorsed Gillum had trailed No. 3 or 4 out of the five democratic gubernatorial candidates in most polls approaching Election Day. The self-proclaimed "only non-millionaire in the race" took the nomination in a single-percentage-point edge over the frontrunner, former Congresswoman Gwen Graham.

You’ve probably heard of the concept of flow -- it’s basically a state of mind achieved when athletes become completely engaged and immersed in their performance, completely losing conventional perception of time, and finding themselves able to entirely focus on the moment they are in and therefore able to perform at extraordinarily high levels. Think Michael Jordan in his prime -- able to pull off seemingly magical performances under extremely high levels of pressure.

As coastal communities continue facing the repercussions from the nearly year-old red tide bloom lingering off the coast southwest Florida, researchers are searching for ways to reduce its impact, and possibly even physically remove the organism that causes it, Karenia brevis , from the water.

We’re looking at a preemptive approach to reducing the possibility of harmful algae blooms by reducing the amount of nutrients from stormwater runoff that wind up in the water in the first place -- by planting trees. A local nonprofit called OneTree , whose mission is to plant one new tree, per person, per year, is turning its sights on our water crisis through what’s called riparian restoration .

We’re learning more about a method that's being tested to remove blue-green algae from the Caloosahatchee River and area canals. Much of it arrived via releases from the algae-covered Lake Okeechobee -- a move the US Army Corps of Engineers made to keep the water level in the lake at a safe level for the aging Herbert Hoover Dike that surrounds it.