NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dan Billheimer, owner of the Lighthouse Café in Sanibel, Florida, about reuniting with an artifact from his restaurant that had disappeared after Hurricane Ian in 2022.

Southwest Florida is steadily marking recovery milestones in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. The powerful storm had swept away all three weather stations of the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation ...

Don’t forget your camera and binoculars when visiting J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge. The place is known for ...

Southern Living ranked the top 50 beach towns in the south for 2025 and Sanibel was the top-ranked location in Florida.

Address: 3075 Sanibel Captiva Rd, Sanibel, FL 33957 Opened: 1995 What is The Great Hall of Shells? According to the museum ...

One of the last of the 1960’s era old Florida beachfront hotels on Fort Myers Beach is being taken down more than two years ...

Hurricane season 2025 starts in about 2 months, and some leading forecasters are calling for an average year. But don't let ...

Collier County’s Park Shore Beach Renourishment Project is scheduled to finish this month. The Board of County Commissioners ...

In the United States, Florida is probably the state most synonymous with hurricanes. Though it’s not quite the hurricane capital of the world, that would go to a Caribbean island called Abaco, Florida ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Dan Billheimer, owner of the Lighthouse Café in Sanibel, Florida, about reuniting with an artifact from his restaurant that had disappeared after Hurricane Ian in 2022.

J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge, located on Sanibel Island ... bird drying its wings in mangroves. Before Hurricane Ian, about 900,000 people visited the refuge every year.