On Jan. 8, at their first meeting of the new year, the Manatee Board of County Commissioners received an update on the ...

Week one of the adult flag football league at the Center of Anna Maria Island kicked off Jan. 9 with five games played. The ...

Cold weather calls for shrimp on the hook — and patience - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

The Florida Legislature directed OPPAGA to analyze the potential benefits of consolidating local government services for the three ...

Over the weekend of Jan. 3-5, residents, neighbors and friends of the Pines Trailer Park were shocked by an announcement from the park owners. It seems an ...

Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected in 86 samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast. Bloom concentrations of ...

A construction crew Aug. 25 readies the ground along the north side of Cortez Road in Bradenton Beach for a new sidewalk. islander Photo: Lisa Neff Residents near the intersection of Cortez Road and ...

The new Anna Maria Island Community Center building came about at the cost of an Island landmark, Benji Scanio Memorial Stadium. The field didn’t really change, but the stadium and concrete bleachers ...

Mullet fishers congregated off Bean Point in the mouth of Tampa Bay last week for a mullet catch. The fish, prized in Europe and Asia for its roe, gather in large schools in late fall and early winter ...

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 ...

Call Tropical Storm Claudette a sleeper, having formed Saturday night as we all slept. An area of disturbed weather about 100 miles west-northwest of Anna Maria Island was termed a named storm by the ...

Understating the obvious for Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key, the Coalition of Barrier Island Elected Officials at its March 21 meeting held a discussion on traffic problems confronting the four ...