The fee charged to residents would add millions to the county budget for cleaning canals and waterways and enhancing the ...

Maxwell: Hundreds of manatees have starved to death in Florida waters, due to pollution. A federal job says Florida didn’t do ...

Nearly 2,000 manatees died in the state in 2021 and 2022, a two-year record. Widespread water quality problems and seagrass ...

Manatee County has approved a $5.66 million loan to One Stop Housing to support an affordable housing project near Cortez Road in Bradenton. One Stop Housing pitched the idea for the project last ...

On Tuesday, commissioners voted 5-1 to not add fluoride to the county's drinking water. They also said they will not repair the county's fluoridation system.

Officials with the Manatee County school district got to see the progress of the new Barbara A. Harvey 4th through 8th grade ...

Manatee County deputies received a call at 10:30 a.m. that an elderly couple was lying unresponsive in their front yard.

Sarasota County environmental staff recommends exiting interlocal agreement to oversee the city's stormwater management ...

It started with one commissioner asking questions. That opened up a whole new can of worms when commissioners, and then the public, found out the machine that ...

The once vibrant Floridatown community had its county seat status snatched away, but it will be home to Santa Rosa's first ...

The Planning Commission is a seven-member advisory board that reviews local development requests and rule changes before they come to the Board of County Commissioners. The Planning Commission can ...