On Thursday, former Manatee County School Board member Charlie Kennedy filed to run for election to the District 3 seat currently held by Mary Foreman. Kennedy previously served as the …
The Manatee County Commission will hold a work session meeting on Saturday this week...
Another candidate has entered the Florida House District 72 race. The house district seat was formerly represented by Republican Tommy Gregory who, in April, was named …
On Thursday, YouTube star and Freedom Factory owner Cleetus McFarland announced that he bought a private airport in Manatee County. The property I'm showing you today is the …
The Republican Party of Florida has officially decided that it will oppose Amendment 3, the constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would legalize recreational cannabis for adults 21 …
Manatee County Sheriff’s Office detectives have arrested a Riverview man they say shot multiple rounds into a vehicle during a road rage incident in Palmetto on Sunday. …
This Saturday, Keep Manatee Beautiful and Suncoast Aqua Adventures will team up for the Manatee River Underwater Cleanup. Volunteers are needed! The event will take place Saturday, May 11 from 7:30 …
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Biden administration ATF rule meant to address the commonly referred to “gun show …
Red tide was not observed in samples collected statewide over the past week. We continue to use satellite imagery (USF and NOAA NCCOS) to help track nearshore and offshore conditions. No reports …
On Thursday, Manatee County Commissioners voted unanimously to have staff draft a referendum to be put to voters in Nov., asking to increase the bond limit for the county's environmental land …
With Florida’s affordable housing situation still at crisis levels, local officials, state lawmakers, researchers and other groups are looking to come up with new ideas, from changing zoning to …
U.S. House Republicans Wednesday passed a bill, with heavy support from Democrats, that would define antisemitism for the Department of Education, amid nationwide college campus …
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Wednesday banning cultivated or lab-grown meat in Florida, placing it within a conspiracy by global “elites” to destroy agriculture in the interests …
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced Sid Pennington as the recipient of the 2024 Sonya Rood Volunteer of the Year award at this week’s Commission meeting in Daytona …
The Palmetto City Commission, the Bradenton City Council, and the Manatee County Planning Commission...
On Wednesday, Florida's controversial six-week abortion ban went into effect. In 16 states, abortion is banned outright; eight are in the South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, …
New College President Richard Corcoran recently got a $200,000 bonus from the board of trustees. This is on top of the over $1 million annual pay the trustees have already promised him. The catch? …
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump appear to be on better terms following a Washington Post report that the two met Sunday morning in Miami — not at the Trump compound at Mar-a-Lago, which is …
Police and state troopers arrested nine pro-Palestinian protesters late Monday who had occupied a campus plaza at the University of Florida for days. They were among the first …
On Monday, a ruptured sewer line caused the shutdown of a portion of Ninth Street West in downtown Bradenton at approximately noon. It remained closed until around 6:30 p.m.
