Known as the gateway to Southwest Florida, Fort Myers is the kind of destination that does it all. Yearning to explore a vibrant metropolitan? Fort Myers’s downtown has plenty to see, do, and eat—and ...

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When Florida is in urgent need of more conservation land, why were 4 waterfront acres made the top priority? Max Chesnes is the Tampa Bay Times' environment and climate reporter, covering public lands ...

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Giovanni Pelletier, 18, was last heard from on Aug. 1, according to his family. A teenager from North Carolina has been missing for nearly a week after vacationing in Florida and trying to reconnect ...

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Gov. Ron DeSantis sided with scores of Florida city and county governments and vetoed a measure that would have erased local regulation of vacation rental properties and turned power over to the state ...

A search is underway for Trinity Eslinger, whose family said she was swept away by a current in the water on Thursday, June 12 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...