The Transitional Sheltering Program will allow displaced residents to stay in hotels and motels through the State of Florida program along with FEMA.

Families left homeless after Hurricane Ian continue to live in shelters and wonder what do to next, eight days after the storm made landfall in southwest Florida.

From Fort Myers to Orlando, the day after Hurricane Ian swept through southwest and central Florida shows plenty of devastation.

A construction worker recently helped authorities wrangle a six-foot alligator in Estero, and it was all caught on camera.

ESTERO, Fla. – A heroic rescue was captured on video after an Estero retiree volunteered to have cameras put in his backyard. What the Florida Wildlife Federation and the fStop Foundation didn’t expect to capture from the video project, called Sharing the Landscape, was Richard Wilbanks prying his 3-month-old puppy from the jaws of an alligator. Wilbanks, 74, said he was out walking the Cavalier King Charles spaniel by the pond near the back of his house. The owner jumped into action and into the water to grab the puppy. The idea of the video project involves residents who live in areas that border wild habitat in Lee County.