Ham Jones is closing his Seafood Shack for two or three weeks but that doesn't mean he's selling the Cortez landmark restaurant, he said Tuesday. A persistent rumor surfaced again this week among his ...

While Anna Maria is saving about $50,000 a year by outsourcing its building official position and paying for just part-time help, it’s not really getting the maximum level of service, current building ...

Officials investigate the crash of a private, single-engine plane on April 13. islander Photo: Courtesy Craig Herbert of NewsManatee.com A Cortez man and a Sarasota man suffered injuries April 13 when ...

A local landscape company has agreed to “adopt” eight traffic medians in Holmes Beach, with enhanced plantings to take place within the next 30 days. Jeb Stewart will do the work, parks and ...

Gang violence erupted on Coquina Beach on Easter, sending three people with gunshot wounds to the hospital and two men to jail on multiple charges. The victims, all of them brothers from Arcadia, are ...

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 ...

Members of the Bradenton Beach Scenic Highway Committee Corridor Management Entity were surprised two weeks ago to learn that Manatee County planned to build a lifeguard station just east of Coquina ...

This photo shows the location of the former Trader Jack's restaurant, now being offered for $25 million by Mike Norman Realty of Holmes Beach. islander Photo: Jack Elka Got a spare $25 million sitting ...

"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 ...

Twenty years ago my wife and I came to Anna Maria to spend the winter. We are still here. In that time the island has changed considerably; but then, I suppose, so have we. Twenty years is apt to ...

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 ...

Turner Grant, 13, right, and Ian Wilson, 13, left, both of Ontario, Canada, with their catch of gag grouper, red grouper, and a monster mangrove snapper. Both were on spring break and visiting Ian’s ...