Cape Coral FL

FORT MYERS — The Gulf Council will hold an Ecosystem Working Group session in Fort Myers and four other locations in coming weeks.

Charlotte Harbor may not be quite what we think — it is, in many ways, something we dug up ourselves.

The strictest water restrictions are now in effect across the West Central Florida region. The Southwest Florida Water Management District announced that Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, and Sumter counties; portions of Charlotte, Highlands, and Lake counties;...

PORT CHARLOTTE — Charlotte County leaders moved forward with plans to replace two of its destroyed fishing piers, one in El Jobean and the other at Charlotte Harbor’s Bayfront Live Oak Park.

Libby McNeill Cressy of Contoocook, NH, found a Junonia on March 22 near the Sand Pointe condominiums on Tarpon Bay Beach. Libby has been a frequent visitor to Sanibel since the 1980s and is ecstatic to finally find her first Junonia. Her husband equates the find to sinking a hole-in-one at the Masters and jokingly...

LEE COUNTY, Fla. — An E-bike rider has died after a crash with another vehicle on Wulfert Road, the Sanibel Police Department confirmed on Thursday. According to Sanibel PD, on Wednesday, both lanes of Wulfert Road at Dinkins Lake Road were shut down due to the crash. The crash...

On March 25, 2026, around 6:57 p.m., Cape Coral Police officers responded to the 1800 block of Everest Parkway regarding a disturbance involving a weapon. The caller said a man, later identified as Raul Elosegui Fernandez (DOB 05/15/1984), threatened them with a sword before fleeing in a white Chevrolet pickup truck.

There is a diner tucked into Bonita Springs that makes you feel like time slowed down the moment you walk through the door. Chrome accents, retro booths, jukebox tunes playing in the background, and a menu so loaded with comfort food that narrowing it down feels like a real challenge.

There is a waterfront restaurant in Southwest Florida where the harbor breeze rolls in off the water, a giant crab hangs from the ceiling, and the seafood on your plate tastes like it just came off the boat. The kind of place where locals celebrate anniversaries, snowbirds pack the patio, and first-time visitors...

This story has been updated with new information. Thousands of stone crab traps across the Southwest Florida coast are sitting on the bottom of the Gulf, acting as killing machines as they'll never be retrieved or removed from the water. The traps are scattered from Bonita Springs north to Tampa Bay, and some...