Current red tide conditions around the state of Florida are summarized, and sampling results are mapped. Reports are updated on Friday afternoon. Current and past regional status reports are also ...

Cortez Trailer Park owner Harry Howey Sr. with daughter Kathie Howey Harris addresses the residents about their co-op venture, "It's about preserving for the future." A small group of residents ...

Longtime Bradenton Beach resident and City Commissioner Michael Pierce of Ward 2 is seeking the mayoral position. Pierce moved to the city 20 years ago from Lansing, Mich. He is a retired performance ...

Holmes Beach Police officers arrested William Cawley Jr., 47, of Bradenton, for contributing to the delinquency of a child and possession of marijuana. According to the arrest report, officers found ...

A drawing by Emily Anne Smith of the planned structures at the Beach Inn shows a tropical flavor. The units will be marketed as "fractional" ownership, according to Lance McNeill of Reliance Property ...

The April 12 death of 45-year-old Anna Maria resident Karen Beth Maloney has been ruled a suicide by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. She was found shot around 2 p.m. at a home in the 500 block of ...

Joseph Edmund Chiquet of Bradenton Beach is scheduled to go to trial in June on charges he engaged in sexual activity with a minor. Chiquet was arrested last July. His public defender Adam Tebrugge ...

Holmes Beach Mayor Carol Whitmore presented her plan for Island consolidation at the May 19 meeting of the Coalition of Barrier Island Officials. islander Photo: Rick Catlin Just like Haley's comet, ...

A Holmes Beach man and a Bradenton woman were arrested June 11 in connection with numerous home burglaries. Some property was recovered, but most already had been pawned by the couple to “fuel their ...

Sarah Lynch from Montague, N.J., caught this big gag grouper on her first fishing trip with Capt. Larry McGuire of Show Me The Fish Charters. The fish was caught about 32 miles out in the Gulf of ...

Cortez Trailer Park residents and citizens concerned about a possible sale packed the regular monthly meeting of the Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, where the residents of Cortez lent a ...

Longboat Key officials are seeking to tap into Anna Maria Island and Manatee County clout as they challenge a proposal to run a gas pipeline through sand resources in Tampa Bay. Longboat Key town ...