With less than three weeks to the Cinco de Mayo Mexican holiday on Saturday, May 5, Island and Manatee County officials are scrambling to ensure the safety of beachgoers that day following the ...

And then there were four - champions that is. The 12th annual Anna Maria Island Community Center Holiday Indoor Soccer Tournament came to a close on Dec. 21 with champions being crowned in the U12 and ...

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 ...

St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church is celebrating 50 years on Anna Maria Island, with a parishioners’ festival planned for the weekend. The Very Rev. Msgr. Edward Moretti, pastor of Sts. Peter And Paul ...

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 ...

Collin Thompson and Julie Stokes of Bradenton Beach were charged Oct. 20. Thompson faces two counts of burglary and one count of grand theft and Stokes faces two counts of burglary. In a separate ...

Dr. Ernest Estevez is the keeper of all lore nautical in our part of the world. For more than three decades he has practiced his craft at Mote Marine Laboratory, publishing scores of technical papers ...

A comprehensive study of red tide that details the environmental, scientific, economic and social impacts of the water-borne problem has been released by Mote Marine Laboratory’s fledgling Marine ...

Basketball, soccer, golf, horseshoes kick off May sports - Read this weeks Sprts News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

May’s mildly warm water temps result in hot fishing action - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Almost all of the memorial benches that lined the shore in Holmes Beach are gone. And replacing them could cost a pretty ...

The owner of Bungalow Beach Resort sued the city of Bradenton Beach after commissioners denied her request for paid parking ...