Visitors to Anna Maria Island arriving this week without a reservation may have to scramble to find lodging. Only a few Island accommodation owners and managers surveyed last week reported any ...

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 ...

Holmes Beach Police Department didn’t have to look too hard this week to make an arrest in the Dec. 18 robbery of several stores near the business intersection of Gulf and Marina drives. The suspect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 8, at their first meeting of the new year, the Manatee Board of County Commissioners received an update on the ...

The Florida Legislature directed OPPAGA to analyze the potential benefits of consolidating local government services for the three ...

Over the weekend of Jan. 3-5, residents, neighbors and friends of the Pines Trailer Park were shocked by an announcement from ...

Over the past week, the red tide organism Karenia brevis was detected in 86 samples collected from Florida’s Gulf Coast. Bloom concentrations of ...

An aerial photo from the north end by the Sandbar Restaurant looking south Jan. 6 shows another cold front moving in. Even ...

Cold weather calls for shrimp on the hook — and patience - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...