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 ...

Calm winds, warmers temps lead to opportunities in Gulf - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short reported in a Feb. 13 email to The Islander some of the events from a commission meeting that day ...

As Manatee County and the Florida Department of Transportation prepare for the replacement of the Cortez Bridge, utility work ...

Bradenton Beach commissioners motioned on Feb. 14 to hire a new building official and a new flood plain manager, unanimously ...

FISH secretary and Florida Sea Grant extension scientist Angela Collins holds a red grouper during a Dock Talk at the Fulford ...

The red tide organism, Karenia brevis, was detected in 66 samples from Florida’s Gulf coast the week ending Feb. 16. In Southwest Florida, K. brevis was ...

Hole-in-one at KRC, action at center, AM pits, tennis courts - Read this weeks Sprts News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

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 ...

The Rev. Rosemary Backer of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Holmes Beach delivers the sermon "Sunday's Coming" to the "larger-than-ever crowd" of worshippers, according to Holmes Beach Mayor Rich ...

The Anna Maria Island Fireworks Task Force will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 26, at Anna Maria City Hall to discuss preventing the use of illegal fireworks during the July 4 ...