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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Coleman of Pine Avenue Restoration LLC withdrew his request for a variance for additional parking spaces at the company’s proposed retail-office-residential project at 503 Pine Ave,, telling the ...

A Holmes Beach woman charged with felony child neglect has been released from the Manatee County jail on bail. Pamela McDaniel, 39, was arrested in late January in Bradenton and faces charges of child ...

Sheepshead are still the best backwater catch right now for Island anglers, with the striped monsters lurking near almost any structure in the bays. Weights are approaching 6 pounds, so now is the ...

The long-awaited replacement of the Key Royale Bridge should begin next spring, according to representatives from the Florida Department of Transportation. The big question, though, is just how much ...

Commercial boat rental businesses are not allowed to use the newly established launch site at Bayfront Park in Anna Maria, according to Manatee County Parks and Recreation director Cindy Turner. The ...