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

Hurricane Milton regained Category 5 strength Tuesday as it barreled across the Gulf of Mexico toward the Florida Peninsula, ...

Hurricane Milton, which forecasters say poses an "extremely serious threat," is expected to roar into Florida tomorrow.

Senate President Kathleen Passidomo said Tuesday that storm-related issues likely “will dominate” the next legislative ...

Hurricane Milton is predicted to make landfall on Thursday at 2 a.m.Several Minnesotans and Wisconsinites caught last-minute ...

While the barometric pressure may go back and forth as the storm moves through the Gulf, it's expected to make landfall along Florida's west coast Wednesday as a major hurricane.

Hurricane Milton expected to make landfall late Wednesday has forced thousands of Floridians out of their homes.

Milton now ranks as the third-greatest 24-hour hurricane intensification by wind speed in the Atlantic Basin. (Records are ...

Patients are being transferred to other hospitals on safer ground as Hurricane Milton inches closer to the coast.

From Fort Lauderdale to West Palm Beach and beyond, local officials warned residents to take this storm seriously.

It’s hard to find much of a forecast cause for optimism. Milton will combine a generational surge threat to west-central ...