This summer, Lehigh Regional Medical Center in Lee County plans to open a new 27-bed behavioral health unit for patients 55 and older. Even before construction on the new unit is completed, Lehigh Regional plans to begin offering Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) treatments for older patients suffering from severe depression and other mental health issues.

We're joined by comedienne Paula Poundstone , probably best known by public radio listeners as one of the most beloved recurring guests on the NPR News Quiz, Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! We’ll pick her brain in advance of her show on on March 3rd at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers.

We're sitting down with special effects artist Wayne Anderson in advance of his talk and workshop at the Bower School of Music and the Arts at Florida Gulf Coast University. Originally from Naples, Anderson has worked on Stranger Things, Jurassic World, the Ghostbusters Reboot, IT, Bright and a slew of other movies.

Mass killings on school campuses have, unfortunately, become commonplace in American society. Just a week ago today, a shooter opened fire at a Broward County high school – killing 17 people and injuring another 15. These incidents have left the country divided on whether we need more guns or less guns, better mental health care or harsher responses from governing bodies to red flags, the death penalty or mercy for the killers…

Today began with heightened tension for parents and students with social media threats throughout the state in the wake of the mass shooting last week in Broward County which left seventeen people dead. A threat caused a flurry of panic at two Collier county schools, caused another school to go on lockdown in Manatee County, and caused panicking parents to leave work, yanking their kids out of class. Meanwhile, a bus load of students went to Tallahassee to appeal to lawmakers to do something to

We're joined by Liza Jayne Longenhagen, she's starring as Helen Keller in Florida Repertory Theatre's current production of The Miracle Worker . She got her start earlier this year playing Scout in the theatre's production of To Kill a Mockingbird. As part of her research for the role, the fifth grader took a trip to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine with actress Betsy Hogg, who is playing her teacher Anne Sullivan in the show, as well as the play's director Maureen

We’re joined by Bradley Myles , he's Executive Director and CEO of Polaris , a global leader in the fight to eradicate human trafficking and to restore freedom to survivors. Myles has devoted his life to combating human trafficking and modern slavery on a local, national, and global scale. His early efforts focused on directly serving survivors, researching local human trafficking markets, and helping to build Washington DC's first-ever Human Trafficking Task Force.

As we enter the seventh week of Florida’s state-lawmaking session, our legislative roundtable series continues in a conversation with State Sen. Kathleen Passidomo , R-Naples, who represents Senate District 28 which covers portions of Collier, Hendry and Lee Counties. We spoke with Sen. Passidomo the morning after last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County.

We sit down with Ron Feemster, Journalism professor at Florida Southwestern State College , to discuss his upcoming lecture “Living in a World of Fake News” which is part of FSW’s Critical Thinking Lectures Series . Professor Feemster has researched the history of “fake news” back to the dawn of the printing press. He says the world we live in today is quite similar to that of colonial times in terms of how publishers try to hold an audience, except now publishing is far cheaper, has no

2018 marks the bicentennial of the publication of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus," and Southwest Florida is marking the anniversary with a celebration to honor the enduring relevance of the novel 200 years later.