Many of the colorful cottages, boutiques and restaurants that made this artsy little fishing village famous and fun are gone or battered now, swallowed by surge or broken by wind. Boats have been ...

It is, or was, a slice of Old Florida. Where the condo towers weren’t. No thonged models, celebrities or South Beach vibe either. Matlacha, Florida, is now struggling to stay on the map. This was a ...

Photographer, Ben Hicks, takes a journey along the stunning waters of Matlacha Pass and Bunche Beach Preserve When photographer Ben Hicks set out for a day of kayaking along the Great Calusa Blueway, ...

I made an impassioned plea last week for diners to support Fort Myers Beach restaurants. A toxic one-two punch of red tide and blue-green algae slammed our islands this summer, forcing boaters and ...

"People are losing their homes and their businesses," one resident told ABC. MATLACHA, Fla. -- Roughly three dozen pastel-colored cottages line the only road to Pine Island, the largest island along ...