Hurricane Melissa to hit Jamaica as catastrophic Cat 5 on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Here’s how Sarasota-Manatee residents can help.

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Melissa strengthened into a deadly Category 5 hurricane Monday with catastrophic impacts expected across the Caribbean, ...

The 'Gulfcoast Pride Festival' returned to downtown Sarasota on Saturday after the event was canceled last year due to ...

Hurricane Milton made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, at 8:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h. Forecasters with the U.S. National Weather Service ...

I am not a businessman or an educator, but what may occur in several Sarasota schools makes no sense ('Hostile takeover": Charter operator files to occupy 3 Sarasota schools," Oct. 10). What business ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) – October 9, 2025, marks the first year after Hurricane Milton made landfall along the Suncoast, impacting communities from Sarasota, Venice, to Boca Grande and Manasota Key.

NEWS. ALL RIGHT, HALEY, THANK YOU. WE’LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU SOON. ONE YEAR AGO TODAY, HURRICANE IAN MADE LANDFALL IN FLORIDA. THE STORM LEFT BEHIND MAJOR FLOODING AND DEBRIS ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA ...

On the evening of Oct. 9, 2024, the fifth hurricane to strike the United States in the 2024 season roared ashore on the west coast of Florida, just two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall on ...

A Sarasota County flight crew prepares to deliver relief supplies to Jamaica later this week as catastrophic Hurricane ...

Southwest Florida has experienced a quiet 2025 hurricane season so far. This contrasts with 2024, when the region was hit by two hurricanes, Helene and Milton, within two weeks. Hurricane Milton made ...

Among hurricanes, Milton will likely be remembered as both powerful and capricious. It formed as a tropical depression in the Gulf on Oct. 5, was upgraded to a tropical storm later that day and then ...