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 ...

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 ...

"Our ‘dirty little secret' is that you don't go to Manatee County's beaches on holiday weekends. The county needs to wake up." That comment from Bradenton Beach Mayor John Chappie comes in the wake of ...

Visitation for Holmes Beach Police Officer Pete Lannon, who died June 1, will be 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, June 5, at Brown and Sons Funeral Home, 604 43rd St. W., Bradenton. A funeral Mass will be ...

There’s no room at the Anna Maria Inn. Anna Maria city commissioners agreed unanimously at their April 23 meeting that there was no need to ask Mayor Fran Barford to have the planning and zoning board ...

He has received an offer of $10.8 million for the Cortez Trailer Park, the owner has advised occupants, and if they can match it they are welcome to buy. No way, said the president of the homeowners ...

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 ...

There will be a public meeting in Cortez to air the whole proposal for the Bradenton Boat Club's contemplated 330-boat storage building. The problem is, the project is in such early stages that nobody ...

Mark Pelham is comforted by mother Sheleagh after he escaped from a burning apartment in Holmes Beach last week. Insert: The northside apartment of an elevated duplex in Holmes Beach caught fire ...

"Our job is customer service," says the new postmaster for most of Anna Maria Island, "and I want to meet every one of our customers." He is Charlie Shannon, new to the Island but not to the U.S.

The 16th Annual Carl Balck GMC Sarasota Blues Fest will be at the Ed Smith Stadium, 2700 12th St., Sarasota, Oct. 28. Headlining the show is Gregg Allman, who has roots to Anna Maria Island, as well ...

Many of Manatee County's homeless population often head to Anna Maria Island, particularly on weekends. With free bus service to Manatee Public Beach from the mainland and the free Island Trolley, the ...