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 ...

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.

Cortez Cove Marina apparently will remain the historic fishing village's own. Karen Bell, managing partner in the current ownership, said a closing is tentatively planned for May in a deal whereby ...

Lifelong islander Jean Bystrom captured mullet photos last week at "mom and dad's dock," Jean and Hugh Holmes Sr., in Holmes Beach, where the fish were schooling and gurgling on the bay water's ...

The Holmes Beach Planning Commission wants to revise the city's new comprehensive plan to limit rentals in the residential single-family and medium density zones to a minimum 30-day stay. Such a move ...

Rotten Ralph's Waterfront Restaurant at the end of South Bay Boulevard in Anna Maria isn't going anywhere, at least for another two years. The landmark restaurant signed a two-year lease agreement ...

An artist's rendering of what the new Anna Maria Island Community Center exterior will look like was displayed at the September board of directors meeting. islander Photo: Diana Bogan After several ...