Florida Gulf coast

Avery Bryan and Eva Aponte ride an airboat back to safety after spending 16 hours adrift in the Gulf waters outside of Cedar Key.

Fishermen describe rescue of missing teens who spent 16 hours adrift overnight off Gulf Coast

A trio of fishermen off Florida's Gulf Coast experienced the catch of a lifetime: two 16-year-old friends who had spent the night adrift on a paddleboard waving down their rescuers from atop an oyster bar miles from shore.

Authorities found an airplane on Dec. 4, 2022 after it crashed in the Gulf of Mexico off Venice, FL.

Airplane crash off Florida's Gulf Coast leaves 2 dead, 1 missing

The Associated Press

A woman and a child are dead and another person is missing after a plane crashed off Florida's Gulf Coast.

A man looks for his houseboat amid the storm-surge wreckage along the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Fla., last week after Hurricane Ian.

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A Fort Myers development proposal may be the first gauge of the Gulf Coast's post-Ian approach

Tim Padgett

A residential development proposal would clear mangroves, and storm-surge buffer, near Shell Point. Lee County commissioners will vote on it next month.