Fort Myers FL

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...

There’s no “Cutest Critter in Florida” contest but, if there were, I can name a few contestants. The diminutive Key deer, for one. The seagrass-munching manatee for another. And, of course, the friendly Florida scrub jay. You may not be familiar with the scrub jay. Contrary to what The Trashmen used to sing, not...

A Modified Phase III 'Extreme' Water Shortage is in effect from April 3, 2026, through July 1, 2026, across Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, and Sumter counties, plus parts of Charlotte, Highlands, Lake, and Marion counties. All residents, including those on...

Wonder Gardens and the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs celebrated the dedication of a newly constructed Chickee Hut with Rotary members, Seminole Tribe representatives, City of Bonita Springs officials and Wonder Gardens board members. The Rotary Club had donated the $30,000 needed to build the Chickee Hut, which...

Construction has started on a new industrial park in Fort Myers. The work is on Phase 1 of The Hub at Daniels, which is being built at Saddle Road and Halter Lane. It is east of the Daniels Parkway and Treeline Avenue intersection, about five minutes from Southwest International Airport.