Tomorrow, Fort Myers Beach will be hosting, yet again, the second annual Southwest Florida Sustains: A Regional Seafood Experience . The event centers around culinary arts on the beach, all while promoting sustainable gulf seafood with dishes from Chloe's Seafood & Steaks , Charley's Boat House Grill , Pincher's on the Beach , Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille , Fish-Tale Waterfront Dining and others.

Conflict resolution and inclusivity are basics most of us learned in preschool, but sometimes, in a divided world, a refresher course can be of use.

Congress missed a deadline at the end of September to reauthorize funding for the country’s community health centers, which provide access to primary care and other medical services for more than 27 million people nationwide.

The MacArthur Foundation just named its 2017 class of fellows , and one name in particular may stand out to Southwest Floridians. That is, Greg Asbed .

After experiencing a lack of clean running water here in Southwest Florida after Hurricane Irma, residents in our area have had just a small taste of what people in Haiti have been dealing with for decades.

State Lawmakers have completed their first round of five committee weeks leading up to the start of Florida’s 2018 legislative session, which officially kicks off Jan. 9. That first week of meetings was delayed due to impacts of Hurricane Irma. Lawmakers still have plenty of prep work ahead of them before the session begins, but an idea of what will likely be next year’s hot-button issues is beginning to take shape.

It’s Oct. 11, which means it’s National Coming Out Day. The holiday was first created by the LGBT civil rights activist group the Human Rights Campaign , or HRC, nearly three decades ago. When it began, it was in the midst of the AIDS crisis, which was largely associated with gay men in the 1980s. Since then, the spread of HIV and AIDS is much better understood, and the LGBT community, as a whole, has made several strides.

Internationally renowned photographer and environmental advocate Clyde Butcher has been hiking deep into the Big Cypress National Preserve, the western Everglades and other natural Florida locations for more than 30 years, capturing his iconic black and white photographs of our region’s pristine wild spaces.

Internationally acclaimed impressionist-expressionist painter and philanthropist Leoma Lovegrove takes a break from her Matlacha gallery and studio space to join us in our studio. Her paintings, often characterized by their vibrant colors, have come to exemplify Southwest Florida and in many ways have helped put Southwest Florida on the map.

Have you ever wondered why people tend to recoil at the sight of a snake- even if they’ve never been bitten or threatened by one? Well, you can thank Evolutionary Psychology for that. Today on the show we’ll talk with Dr. Glenn Geher , the founding director of Evolutionary studies in Psychology from SUNY in New Paltz about his new book in which he advocates for positivity as we continue to evolve.