Women golfers walk toward their first tee-off in the Fore the Cure fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The event at the Key Royale Club, 700 Key Royale Drive in Holmes Beach, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Representatives with the Manatee and Anna Maria Island chambers of commerce recently returned from a statewide convention with some souvenirs - chamber-of-the-year awards. The two local chambers ...

What's a wannabe visiting recycler to do on Anna Maria Island? That question was posed by Dr. James N. Coutant. An occasional visitor to the Island, Coutant said he and friends dutifully bagged up ...

Snook season has started out on an excellent note, with lots of big, hungry linesiders coming onto the hooks from most of the bays in the area. There is also some great backwater action produced by ...

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 ...

Manatee County’s Gulf Islands Ferry service might find a landing in the heart of Holmes Beach. City Commissioner Dan Diggins, ...

The Bradenton Beach City Commission voted unanimously March 20 to approve a temporary use permit for the Drift-In AMI, ...

Presence of the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was diminishing, detected in just two samples from Florida’s Gulf coast the week ending March 23. The ...

Holmes Beach Mayor Judy Titsworth said the week ending March 23 that spring break brought a lot of traffic and congestion.

The Center of Anna Maria Island’s adult flag football season concluded March 20 with the semifinals and championship games.