Award nominees, family, and friends gathered at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center in Sarasota to honor male and female athletes in categories such as Player of the Year, Boys and Girls Athlete of ...

The 2024-25 Sarasota-Manatee High School Sports Awards, Presented by Sarasota Ford, is proud to announce player of the year nominees for the spring sports season. The winners will be announced ...

SARASOTA — Sarasota and Manatee athletes and coaches received 34 awards on May 30 at the annual Sarasota-Manatee High School Sports Awards Show. Award nominees, family, and friends gathered at ...

Manatee County commissioners expressed outrage at the state’s opposition to their plan to restore wetland protections. Storm clouds over a wetland area at Myakka River State park in Manatee ...

Manatee County leaders are trying to roll back changes that let local development sprawl farther east over the last several years. At a recent Land Use Meeting, commissioners voted to undo a 2021 ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jason Wysong was terminated from his position during a special school board meeting on Tuesday. The school board called a meeting ...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) – Manatee County school board members meet to discuss the future of Superintendent Dr. Jason Wysong, Tuesday morning. In a vote of 3 to 2, the Manatee school board ...

“I estimate pretty close to a thousand,” said Lauren Gomez, a staff member at the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach. The Big Bend Power Station takes in water to cool their machiner ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. – A mother manatee known as “Stripes” and her newborn calf were rescued near Key Largo on Thursday after the adult manatee was found severely entangled in fishing line ...