By the Numbers. How many millions is SW Florida resort spending to prepare for hurricane season? What are resiliency measures ...

Definitely, the cost to view paradise, comes with a massive price tag, too. At $1 billion, storied South Seas is pulling off ...

CAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY After sustaining damage in Hurricanes Helene and Milton last year ... “The library and gallery sustained storm surge,” CIHS Board President Tom Libonate said.

Reconstruction is officially underway at the Mucky Duck, a historic beachfront restaurant on Captiva Island that sustained major damage during ... The twin storms left the dining area filled ...

An artists retreat on an island ... “Captiva is the foundation of my life and my work,” he wrote in a letter. “It is my source and my reserves of energies.” Ian wasn’t the first storm to ...

SANIBEL ISLAND, Florida – We biked ... with two major storms, Helene and Milton, hitting Florida’s west coast, causing new damage and slowing recovery efforts. Making matters worse: The ...

Hurricane damage set Captiva Island's South Seas resort and its neighbors ... After Hurricane Ian and a series of smaller storms, the 330-acre property may need a billion or so in repairs, Greg ...

Vacations are meant to be relaxing, and Captiva Island ... anywhere else on the island. The beloved watering hole has been welcoming in customers of all stripes since 1976 but has seen several ...

Captiva's South Seas Island Resort ... which covers about a third of the barrier island, Hurricane Ian brought 8-and-a-half feet of storm surge, CEO Greg Spencer told The News-Press' last year.

Sanibel, the quaint barrier island ... storm and its 120 mile-per-hour winds passed through, the vast majority of buildings on the spit of land in the Gulf of Mexico had little structural damage.

David Farrar, a resident of Island Estates, an offshore neighborhood of Clearwater connected to the city by bridge, called the damage ... Captiva islands, west of Cape Coral, said the latest ...