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The Florida Department of Transportation is asking you if bike and pedestrian lanes should be added to the busy road.

Twice in a span of less than two weeks, storm surge overflowed mud and muck from the bottom of Matlacha Pass Aquatic Preserve onto Matlacha island, which is less than a quarter of a square mile and connects Pine Island to the mainland via Pine Island Road.

Pine Island Road was built years ago, before Southwest Florida took off. It wasn’t built to sustain the amount of traffic it serves daily.

If you’re taking a trip to Matlacha this week, you might begin to see some traffic back ups.

One neighbor said she and her boyfriend had just got home when they saw the homeowner across the street crawling outside his home coughing. Then, they saw smoke and put two and two together.

Southwest Florida is all about culture, and on Matlacha, you can tell the culture through the art on the island.

Lee County Solid Waste announced that debris collection for Hurricane Milton has concluded for unincorporated areas of Lee County.

The Florida Department of Transportation has announced the temporary closure of the Little Pine Island Bridge.

The Matlacha/Pine Island Fire Control District responded to a vehicle crash in a canal off Matlacha Ave.

The Cape Coral Police Department has arrested one person for DUI after a fatal crash on Pine Island Road.