The Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County sent the advisory July 10 saying that tests on water samples taken Monday showed that North Lido Beach water quality "does not meet the ...

The city of Sarasota will temporarily close segments of Lido Beach beginning later this year as part of a major beach renourishment project.

State officials said higher-than-usual levels of the sickness-causing bacteria had dropped at North Lido Beach.

The rebuilding of Sarasota's Lido Beach's storm-damaged sand dunes will also take place next year.

Later this year, work will begin to renourish a 1.2-mile stretch of Lido Beach. The last renourishment project wrapped up in 2021, but the impacts of hurricanes in the last five years have caused s… ...

BEACH RENOURISHMENT ️City and county leaders announced a $12 million "comprehensive" coastal protection project to restore and fortify Lido Beach.

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Lido Beach will remain open during the project, but certain sections of the beach may be temporarily inaccessible.

The Florida Bar alleged that the Sarasota attorney caused "great public harm” by misappropriating more than $1 million from his clients' trust.