A County flood project was halted by federal regulators. Public Works Director Spencer Anderson has caught much of the ...

The last major dredging of Phillippi Creek, when the West Coast Inland Navigation District (WCIND) worked on it from Little Sarasota Bay to Tuttle Avenue, was completed in 2002.

Hurricane season is here, yet one project many Sarasota residents anticipated to help cur flooding this year won't be ...

The county applied for the permit to dredge the channel in 11 separate segments, hoping for a fast-track of the review. But ...

Residents discovered a memo from the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers that appears to show Sarasota County could get around ...

Sarasota County public work's director said there is a plan and funds ready for dredging, but the U.S Army Corps of Engineers ...

In March, Sarasota County commissioners directed staff to pursue an emergency dredging project for Phillippi Creek. It’s ...

Sarasota County's bid for an emergency dredging project on Phillippi Creek was denied by federal officials; advocates say ...

Multiple Sarasota residents showed up to a budget workshop meeting on Tuesday to express their concerns and frustrations ...

Two brothers and two friends take on and wi, an 80-mile Atlantic paddleboard challenge in an effort to provide support for ...

Phillippi Creek itself is one of Sarasota County's central arteries. It stretches from Little Sarasota Bay, through the Mennonite communities off Beneva Road, and southeast past Interstate 75.

For years, homeowners living near Phillippi Creek warned Sarasota County the sediment-choked waterway needed dredging, then ...