While the 5.4-acre property has been vacant for 20 years, some see it as the "next chapter" for downtown Punta Gorda.

An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts ... spread to more than 10,000 acres and prompted evacuation orders and warnings for 50,000 people as high winds fanned the flames.

The least expensive of three options for a new Punta Gorda City Hall building would cost the city nearly $16 million. With that in mind, City Council on Jan. 15 chose to solicit estimates for ...

When Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin launches its New Glenn rocket − for the first time − people way outside the Space Coast of Florida could possibly see it light up the sky. Depending on ...

GREAT WHITE SHARKS HAVE MIGRATED BACK TO THE GULF OF MEXICO ... OF THE SEA MOVING INTO WARMER WATERS CLOSER TO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA. YOU CAN SEE A GREAT WHITE SHARK NAMED KEIJI PINGED OFF THE ...

The fires sweeping across Los Angeles County for the past week have burned more than 50,000 acres, an area roughly equivalent to 2,200 Alcatraz Islands or 500 Disneylands, or larger than Washington, D ...

The Gulf of Mexico is 930 miles wide and bordered by the United States and Mexico. Both countries have roughly equal the same share of shoreline. Nicole Anslover is an associate professor of history ...

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America ... ∎ Mexico Beach. The town on Florida’s Panhandle, devastated by Hurricane Michael during Trump ...

PUNTA GORDA, Fla — Governor Ron DeSantis signed the first death warrant of 2025 on Friday, for the man convicted of killing a Punta Gorda couple in 1997. James Ford has been on death row since ...

While driving from the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States in one day would be far fetched, if not impossible, driving from Florida’s Atlantic Coast to Gulf Coast in a day is much ...

Punta Gorda City Council sought a temporary solution when it was ... Council and various boards and committees have been meeting in the Military Heritage Museum’s Gulf Theater, 900 W. Marion Ave., ...

could be renamed “Mexican America”—a term rooted in a 1607 map of the region. The suggestion came as a response to Trump’s pledge to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” ...