The island is requiring height verification before trimming dune vegetation after multiple hurricanes and tropical storms in ...

The Beach is in trouble with FEMA – and its residents will soon have to pay higher flood insurance premiums. Months after FEMA declared the floodplain management of Fort Myers Beach, Bonita ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N WINK News is finding out what led to the city of Fort Myers going from just a 5% FEMA flood insurance discount to a 20% discount. This is especially huge news because not ...

Streets flooded Tuesday as Fort Myers Beach, Fla., began to feel the effects of Hurricane Idalia. Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg News ...

Fort Myers residents who pay for flood insurance will see their discount go to 20%, up from 5%, this fall. There are not quite 6,000 residents who carry flood insurance, officials said.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA) — A disabled and injured man was pulled to safety from a burning home in North Fort Myers over the ...

The Gulf of Mexico invaded thousands of homes on Florida’s west coast this year, and many will have to be gutted and rebuilt higher — some a full story off the ground. The process makes ...

Betsy Woolf picks vegetables from a bed at the Lakes Park Community Garden in Fort Myers on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. The vegetables are grown for the Community Cooperative food bank. Temperatures ...

Bigger insurance discount, will kick in on Oct. 1; Fort Myers City Council urges residents to make sure their insurer knows.