Fun things to do including holiday boat and land parades, a Hanukkah celebration and a car show this weekend in Sarasota and ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — A man in his early 20s was bitten in the lower leg by a shark near Bean Point on the north end of Anna Maria Island on Sunday, according to the West Manatee Fire Rescue ...

From casual dining spots to more upscale locales, here are restaurants open Christmas Day in Sarasota and Manatee counties.

Manatee County has kicked off its next big utility project on Anna Maria Island: a new subaqueous water main. Loxahatchee-based DBE Management began work ...

Holmes Beach Mayor Judy Titsworth dropped a few lines to The Islander via email Dec. 5, noting that the city will be recognizing its citizen of the year, ...

David Clark, a Bradenton resident who had worked as a server at the Rod & Reel Pier Restaurant since 2022, saw the place he called his second home vanish. According to the Rod & Reel Pier’s Facebook ...

Anna, a graduate of SUNY Purchase College, is an award-winning journalist who has covered local, state and national news in the Hudson Valley and South Carolina. She has also appeared on the Oxygen ...