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 ...

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, ...

Holmes Beach police arrested St. Petersburg resident Brandon Rhodes, 34, May 1 on two third-degree felonies for fleeing to elude law enforcement and theft ...

The city of Holmes Beach will host Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring for weekly talks about sea turtle and shorebird nesting. Sea ...

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

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 ...

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring, during the 2024-25 academic year, invited teachers and students at Anna Maria Elementary School ...

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