More than 100 species of birds - including wood storks - can be found at Robinson Preserve. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony, visitors to Robinson Preserve see the park by wagon tour. A kayaker ...

After more than three hours of debate, discussion, argument, accusations, objections and occasionally some actual information on the proposed Sandbar restaurant site plan at its Feb. 7 meeting, the ...

Emergency medical service technicians and lifeguards at Coquina Beach Aug. 5 worked unsuccessfully to revive Bridwell F. Tobin of Sarasota after the man shot himself with a small pistol. islander ...

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 ...

Nicholas LaFountain, 6, leads a game of tag on Coquina Beach on Easter weekend. The beach weekend brought rain and sun, crowds and celebration, as well as law enforcement on foot, in cruisers and on ...

Bathers and beachgoers using the Palma Sola Causeway beaches should be advised there could be a health problem in the water. The Manatee County Health Department issued an advisory last week for the ...

Cortez Trailer Park residents and citizens concerned about a possible sale packed the regular monthly meeting of the Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, where the residents of Cortez lent a ...

The Medusa will fish again, Cortez is fairly confident, after spending a week on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Crews have been on the job ever since the 42-foot commercial fisherman was swamped ...

Former Island resident and Anna Maria Island Little League product Wyatt Easterling is now an integral part of the North River American 9-10 Division Little League All-Star team. Easterling moved to ...

Snook season has arrived with some ferocity. Linesiders are being hooked off the beaches of Anna Maria Island, but most of the action is coming from the passes and in the bays. Got a snook light at ...

Sex may sell on Madison Avenue and there’s “Sex and the City,” a popular rerun on TV, but sex in Holmes Beach apparently doesn’t sell very well. The house at 5601 Flotilla Drive that was the scene of ...