The humpback bridge on 127th Street West off Cortez Road will close April 7 for 90 to 120 days to allow construction crews to renovate and raise its height an additional 2.5 feet above the high-water ...

Current red tide conditions around the state of Florida are summarized, and sampling results are mapped. Reports are updated on Friday afternoon. Current and past regional status reports are also ...

A Coast Guard training exercise turned into a repair job March 25, when a crew landed its helicopter on the beach in Anna Maria after getting a warning of a rotor problem. islander Photos: Lisa Neff A ...

Going condo? Owners of the White Sands Resort in Holmes Beach say a conversion of the property from motel to condominium units could be the only answer to their ever-increasing property taxes.

The Beach Inn resort on 66th Street and the Tidemark property adjacent to the Wachovia Bank, both in Holmes Beach, have been sold to Mainsail AMI Beach Inn LLP. The Beach Inn sold for $6 million, ...

The dredge that arrived last week to begin renourishment of the Island’s beaches moved to safer waters in Tampa Bay near the northern end of the Island, where calm folks fished away the day. islander ...

St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church is celebrating 50 years on Anna Maria Island, with a parishioners’ festival planned for the weekend. The Very Rev. Msgr. Edward Moretti, pastor of Sts. Peter And Paul ...

An attorney was asking for a continuance in the trial of a teenager arrested in connection with an alleged scuffle in April with a Bradenton Beach police officer on Coquina Beach. The trial of ...

Members of the Bradenton Beach Scenic Highway Committee Corridor Management Entity were surprised two weeks ago to learn that Manatee County planned to build a lifeguard station just east of Coquina ...

The roof of this two-story apartment building in Town & Country Perico was destroyed as fire sparked by a lightning strike spread across the roof and through the attic while more than a dozen ...

A car-motorcycle crash March 24 sent a Holmes Beach man to the hospital. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 2006 Kia driven by Francisco A. Solorzano, 42, of Bradenton, was driving on ...

The Bradenton Beach city pier project looks to be a mess, but it is nearing completion. islander Photos: Paul Roat The Bradenton Beach city pier and its restaurant, left, fishing kiosk and dockmaster ...