A local political action committee aiming to improve Naples' ethics ordinances has collected enough petition signatures to put a referendum on the August ballot to establish a local ethics commission.

The new vibrant neighborhood bistro is downtown at 360 12th Ave. The Hoffmanns have done it again.
The family — the largest owners of commercial real estate in Naples — has snatched up another local business. This time it's a popular downtown eatery.

A legal battle over parking for one of Naples' oldest buildings is veering toward a trial. 

The yearslong dispute is scheduled for a nonjury trial Wednesday and Thursday in Collier Circuit Court.
The unusual land use case involves the vacant, historic Olde Naples Building at Third Street South and Broad Avenue South, built in 1921.

A luxury high-rise condo-hotel planned for East Naples has been put on the back burner.
The website for the project, known as Trio, has been disabled. Its Facebook page is down and the listings for its planned tower residences have disappeared from the Southwest Florida MLS, or multiple listing service.

Port Royal is synonymous with exclusivity, which extends to its beachfront Port Royal Club.Pat Shapiro
Naples, with its waterfront homes and palatial estates off Gordon Drive, is home to some of the wealthiest people in the country. Just how wealthy? Well, Bloomberg tallied the numbers. 

The Naples Planning Advisory Board has approved the Old Naples Hotel for Third Street South.
The planned four-star hotel would replace the long-vacant Third Street Plaza, often described as an eyesore in the otherwise bustling Third Street South shopping and dining district in downtown Naples.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Rick Scott sided with environmentalists Friday by vetoing a so-called "toilet to tap" bill that would have allowed treated wastewater to be pumped back into the state's groundwater.

The three successful candidates in last month’s Naples City Council election got the message.
But on Wednesday, it didn’t make a difference.
On the campaign trail, the candidates heard one demand — expressed in a variety of ways — more than any other: Keep density low; prevent overdevelopment; maintain Naples’ small city feel.

If you care about what’s left of the Everglades, here’s what passes for a victory these days:
The state is moving ahead with plans for a reservoir and a cleansing marsh to handle some of the fertilizer-tainted, algae-spawning deluge that gets dumped from Lake Okeechobee to both coasts every rainy season.

For the third year in a row, Naples topped the Gallup-Sharecare Community Well-Being Rankings. Put simply: We're feeling pretty good here.