It's too bad saltwater fish don't go for worms. If they did, Holmes Beach canals would be a fisherman's paradise, considering the "big can of worms" the city study of canals has unearthed. In fact, ...

Just as one volume is nearing a conclusion, a sequel is in the works for the Bradenton Beach waterfront. Work is moving along on the Historic Bradenton Beach City Pier, with Dave Russell and crew of ...

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 ...

An Internet Web blogger on OurAnnaMaria.blogspot has alleged that Anna Maria city planner Alan Garrett works for Pine Avenue Restoration LLC, then bills his time to the city for another payment. The ...

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 ...

Old-timers in Anna Maria will say that the city has had a parking problem ever since the bridge to Anna Maria opened in 1924 and motorists who drove to the city couldn’t find a parking space. Not much ...

A group tasked with steering improvements to the Palma Sola Scenic Highway wants to extend the drive to include a stretch of road in Holmes Beach that runs to the Bradenton Beach border. Currently the ...

A diver who went missing in the waters off Anna Maria Island has been located. The body of Darren Rordam, 31, of Tampa, was found by other divers, according to the U.S. Coast Guard in St. Petersburg.

A new word has apparently been added to the meteorological lexicon: modiki. It’s a variant of El Niño and La Niña, but located a few hundred miles to the west of the other weather phenomena in the ...

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 ...

Bradenton Beach Police arrested Christine Morgan, 18, of 2200 block Avenue B, after she held what police said was an open house party where up to 40 underage youths were drinking beer. According to ...

Two men from New York drowned in the Gulf of Mexico off Longboat Key May 19, apparently caught in a riptide. John Larry, 48, of Grand Island, N.Y., and Christopher Gugliuzza, 51, of Tonawanda, N.Y., ...