SPRING HILL ... to walk on the beach,” he said. "Look at the water. We get a nice sunset too.” But like everyone else who’s pulled up to the entrance to Pine Island Park for the last ...

“We need to get people talking about Pine Island right now,” said Andrew Hill ... in southwest Florida since Thursday, a day after the storm hit. Fort Myers Beach and Pine Island “have ...

McKethan Park at Pine Island, the Hernando County Health Department announced Friday. Bacteriological test results show the water quality at the beach is now in the "good" range, the department said.

Pine Island has been closed to swimmers since Sept. 4, when health officials detected high levels of bacteria that can cause disease, rashes or infections. The beach at Pine Island is still open ...

Florida completed repairs on the Pine Island Bridge on Thursday, just three days after construction efforts began in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Pine Island was one of two major barrier islands to ...

PINE ISLAND, Fla. — Pine Island, a barrier island off of Florida's southwest coast, only had one link to the mainland — a bridge that was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ian and is now impassible.

Paramedics and other volunteers with a group that helps rescue people after natural disasters went door to door Saturday on Florida's devastated Pine Island, offering to evacuate residents who ...

True to form, the water is rising. And nowhere is that more precarious than on Florida’s barrier islands. On Pine Island, a barrier island largely inhabited by blue-collar residents, many of ...