Milton will be a surge event unlike any hurricane in living memory for west-central Florida, with only major hurricane strikes in 1848 and 1921 comparable in scope and height of the coastal flooding, ...

The News-Press has reporters and photographers covering the latest news in Lee County as residents, businesses and officials prepare for Milton.

As of 5 p.m. Tuesday, Hurricane Milton was packing sustained winds of 165 mph with higher gusts and is now a Category 5.

Hurricane Milton, which re-strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane Tuesday afternoon, is taking aim at Florida.

Despite hotel rooms filling up in prep for Hurricane Milton’s forecasted landfall on the West Coast of Florida ...

Extreme rapid intensification is defined as more than a 60 mph increase in sustained winds in 24 hours. Milton gained 90 mph, ...

Follow all of the latest news and developments in Lee County for Hurricane Milton, a powerful hurricane that is forecast to ...

Separate data analysis from CoreLogic and Moody's has revealed that 500,000 single-family and multifamily homes in Florida's ...

Milton is forecast to cross central Florida and to dump as much as 18 inches of rain while heading toward the Atlantic Ocean, ...

There will be no fire, there will be no EMS, there will be no police. Once we leave the island, you're on your own." ...

Millions of people along Florida’s Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Milton, a historically powerful storm that is ...