Manatee County commissioners want to exercise the government's option to purchase more than 231 acres of undeveloped land on Perico Island. To perform such an exercise they'll need to flex some ...

Complete with five splendid homes, boutique, quilt raffle, and two shuttle buses to ease parking, the 13th annual Anna Maria Island Tour of Homes will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 18. The ...

Ham Jones is closing his Seafood Shack for two or three weeks but that doesn't mean he's selling the Cortez landmark restaurant, he said Tuesday. A persistent rumor surfaced again this week among his ...

The trial of two men accused of the April 2008 home invasion and beating of former Anna Maria Commissioner Linda Cramer has been postponed until Feb. 22, the sixth time the court date has been ...

Officials investigate the crash of a private, single-engine plane on April 13. islander Photo: Courtesy Craig Herbert of NewsManatee.com A Cortez man and a Sarasota man suffered injuries April 13 when ...

Fantastic weather, a lot of fun and some good golf marked the Anna Maria Island Privateers' 11th annual Whitey Horton Memorial Golf Tournament Sunday, May 15, at the El Conquistador Golf and Country ...

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While Anna Maria is saving about $50,000 a year by outsourcing its building official position and paying for just part-time help, it’s not really getting the maximum level of service, current building ...

Future Sandbar This artist's rendering of the proposed changes at the Sandbar restaurant, including the addition of required handicap parking and access and handicap accessible rest rooms, plus ...

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 ...

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