The Naples City Council begins discussing a $144 million budget Monday that includes $19 million in new spending but stops short of a recommendation to increase the city’s annual payments toward the $48 million needed to fully fund pensions for government workers.

Marco Island residents and business professionals gathered this week to provide city staff with input regarding the revision of the land development code.

With news that a real estate investment group owns a swath of land near a neighborhood park in Naples, Vice Mayor Linda Penniman is lobbying for an amendment to the city charter that would prevent the City Council from selling park land to individuals who want to use the land to build.

A Naples property owner on Fifth Avenue South is planning a three-story condominium project across from the redevelopment by local hotelier Phil McCabe that has drawn criticism because it includes underground parking and extends above the city’s maximum building height of 42 feet.

A Naples property owner on Fifth Avenue South is planning a three-story condominium project across from the redevelopment by local hotelier Phil McCabe that has drawn criticism because it includes underground parking and extends above the city’s maximum building height of 42 feet.

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A private New York investment group has quietly purchased a dozen properties in the last affordable neighborhood in Naples, where residents of the city's mostly black community fear they will be pushed out for more profitable development.

Naples has made another A-list for retirees.

The city is one of a dozen that Kiplinger has named as “Great Places to Retire for Your Good Health.”

A private New York investment group has quietly purchased a dozen properties in the last affordable neighborhood in Naples, where residents of the city's mostly black community fear they will be pushed out for more profitable development.