Fort Myers Beach

A new utilities billing system for the Town of Fort Myers Beach means some residents may need to re-register for auto pay service.

Fort Myers Beach residents who have temporary use permits for trailers used as living space or to operate a business need to remove trailers by the permit's September 23 expiration date.

Following the series of storms that have battered Fort Myers Beach, the island community is slowly churning along on its massive rebuild.

Mound House, a museum dedicated to the history of Fort Myers Beach, has a new public water quality monitoring station. The station collects 14 types of water quality data, including temperature, salinity, turbidity, pH and depth.

As new buildings go up along the flood-prone Gulf coast at 15 to 20 feet off the ground, the future of Florida's infrastructure "looks high."

A meeting Wednesday morning delved into the status of storm-ravaged Fort Myers Beach Elementary School. WGCU’s Cary Barbor was there.

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County lifted nearly a dozen health alerts due to red tide

The Lee Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday received an update on the progress of building the new, larger and more resilient Fort Myers Beach Pier that accelerates the planned completion of the project.The estimated completion date of the pier is now in August 2027, ahead of the previous planned completion in summer 2028.

More than two years after Hurricane Ian devastated the island, Fort Myers Beach is a sea of construction and new developments. Not everyone is pleased. With so much change in so little time, some feel that the town is moving away from its small, coastal community roots.

In this installment from the StoryCorps Mobile Tour visit to Fort Myers in Feb. 2024, lifelong friends Karen Hurst and Cathy Goodacre Smith share childhood memories of growing up on Fort Myers Beach in the 1950s and 60s.