The Rod & Reel Pier in Anna Maria remains in ruins but its restaurant soon will be back in business. Oliver “Oli” Lemke, a ...

Holmes Beach Mayor Judy Titsworth weighed in with an email April 4 with news for property owners in the city — a CRS 5 rating ...

Manatee County’s Gulf Islands Ferry service may be back to square 1 in its search for a port in Holmes Beach. City ...

Once, future king of local waters — the kingfish — returns - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Regular golf action saw the men play their weekly modified-Stableford system match March 31. Kevin Breheny took first place ...

Plans are complete for the 43rd annual Easter sunrise service hosted by the Anna Maria Island Kiwanis Club at Manatee Public Beach in Holmes Beach. Easter Sunday is April 8 and the traditional sunrise ...

The Kiwanis Club of Anna Maria Island is preparing to host its sunrise service on Easter Sunday. With sunrise expected at 7:01 a.m. Sunday, April 20, the ...

A huge hammerhead shark caused more commotion ashore last week than it ever did in the water, as Cortez village hosted the marine giant on its way to Mote Marine Laboratory. Caught on tackle off Boca ...

A pair of right whales made an apparent wrong turn from their usual wintertime haunts offshore from Northeast Florida and made a lap of the Gulf of Mexico. The mother and calf were spotted off Anna ...

The Manatee County Area Transit and its Sarasota counterpart, Sarasota County Area Transit, will begin daily trolley service between Anna Maria Island and downtown Sarasota, including stops on ...

A long-standing issue has come back to haunt Bradenton Beach, this time in the form of a criminal contempt of court lawsuit from Pete Milazzo. In an ongoing saga that began in June 2004, Milazzo, of ...

Butts may still be allowed on the beaches in Sarasota County. The Sarasota County Parks Advisory and Recreation Council has recommended that cigarette smoking be allowed along the shore there.