There’s also a unique old Florida place to spend the night, the Tarpon Lodge, with 22 overnight rooms and cottages, many with views of the Pine Island Sound. The property was vacant when the ...

Hurricane Ian made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Florida’s southwest coast on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping away homes and communities. Before Thursday Fort Myers Beach, a coastal city on a ...

On Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel Island and Pine Island, cherished landmarks and an easygoing existence were obliterated by Hurricane Ian. By Jennifer ReedPatricia Mazzei and Jack Healy FORT MYERS ...

PINE ISLAND, Floa. – Cigarette dangling from her fingers, Christine Wright slowed her battered Oldsmobile minivan to a crawl, inching over a power line lying across the road. A few minutes ...

Pine Island and Matlacha in Southwest Florida were slammed by Hurricane Ian’s winds and storm surge. Matlacha is known for its colorful cottages, quirky storefronts, art galleries and fishing.

The community of Matlacha, a living postcard of Florida if there ever was one, is a tiny dot on a map.. On Sept. 28, 2022 it was a big target for Hurricane Ian along with nearby Pine Island. Both ...

But it’s not on Fort Myers Beach, home to the family-owned restaurant for 25 years. You’ll find it parked at Chef Reid Freeman ’s Street Eatz & Ale, which opened April 13 on Pine Island.

He’s been cooking and serving food around Southwest Florida, and said that Pine Island and nearby Fort Myers Beach—also decimated by Ian—are “two different universes,” with Pine Island ...

The single bridge to Pine Island in Florida, seen on Oct. 2, collapsed during Hurricane Ian, leaving residents with few options to get to their homes.