Nobody is asking the Beach to approve every building. But there has to be a middle ground between reckless overdevelopment ...

Long before tourists flooded the island, Lee Melsek and his buddies had Fort Myers Beach pretty much to themselves. And it ...

Decades before it was incorporated in 1995, Fort Myers Beach was enticing northerners to its sandy paradise. My own grandparents built a small beachfront house here in the 1960s, then moved to one of ...

There's something very special about Florida's Gulf Coast. Stunning pearly white sand beaches, palm-fringed shores, clear tourmaline waters, unspoiled landscapes, and stunning sunsets are the norm.

Ten days after Hurricane Ian tore through his small, tight-knit waterfront community of Fort Myers Beach with a storm surge estimated as high as 18 feet, Jerry Altrip boarded a bus and made his way ...

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