Area anglers infected with pandemic proportions of fishing fever - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, ...

Manatee County’s Gulf Islands Ferry service is eyeing a return to the city of Anna Maria. But the route might not be to the ...

A pair of right whales made an apparent wrong turn from their usual wintertime haunts offshore from Northeast Florida and made a lap of the Gulf of Mexico. The mother and calf were spotted off Anna ...

Rotten Ralph's Waterfront Restaurant at the end of South Bay Boulevard in Anna Maria isn't going anywhere, at least for another two years. The landmark restaurant signed a two-year lease agreement ...

A long-standing issue has come back to haunt Bradenton Beach, this time in the form of a criminal contempt of court lawsuit from Pete Milazzo. In an ongoing saga that began in June 2004, Milazzo, of ...

The numbers add up. Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring identified the first loggerhead sea turtle nest ...

Beverly Madden, visiting Holmes Beach for the first time for a month from Hyde Park, Vt., said just days ago she could walk out the Manatee Beach pier and watch folks fish, but now she can't walk ...

Efforts to remove sunken, wrecked, derelict vessels from Sarasota Bay, following impacts from hurricanes Helen and Milton, ...

This building on Gulf Drive in Holmes Beach that has housed the Sterling Anvil since the 1970s and another building around the corner that contains storage spaces and Essence of Time were sold by Earl ...

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring, during the 2024-25 academic year, invited teachers and students at Anna Maria Elementary School in Holmes Beach to compose questions about sea ...

A second lawsuit has been filed ahead of the anniversary of a fatal crash in Holmes Beach. Holmes Beach resident Deborah Trotter filed a lawsuit May 7 ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short told The Islander via email May 9 that the city is proud to have the Anna Maria Sheriff’s Unit on its law enforcement team and ...