The Anna Maria planning and zoning board will hold a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, to consider rezoning 24 lots from commercial to retail-office-residential to bring the properties ...

While the Florida Institute of Government has little information on the cost of a feasibility study to consolidate the three Island cities, its counterpart in Georgia has considerable experience in ...

Two 5,000-square-foot lots are buildable in Bradenton Beach, according to one advisory board, contrary to an opinion by the city's building official. The Bradenton Beach Board of Adjustment last week ...

Anna Maria residents are among the first in the area to receive U.S. Census questionnaires — because Anna Maria residents collect their mail at the post office. Most of the nation’s 120 million ...

Many of Manatee County's homeless population often head to Anna Maria Island, particularly on weekends. With free bus service to Manatee Public Beach from the mainland and the free Island Trolley, the ...

Mark Bebernitz’s taxi operates mostly in the evenings, shuttling passengers from Cortez to Bradenton Beach to Longboat Key. Like most taxis in the area, Bebernitz’s taxi cannot be hailed with a ...

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 ...

Lifelong islander Jean Bystrom captured mullet photos last week at "mom and dad's dock," Jean and Hugh Holmes Sr., in Holmes Beach, where the fish were schooling and gurgling on the bay water's ...

The planned multi-use path from Fifth Street South in Bradenton Beach along the west side of Gulf Drive to the Longboat Pass Bridge is still in the planning stages, according to Mike Sosadeeter of the ...

Confirming the opinion of many accommodation owners and rental agents on Anna Maria Island, tourism to the Island was up nearly 20 percent in December, compared with the same month in 2008. According ...

Understating the obvious for Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key, the Coalition of Barrier Island Elected Officials at its March 21 meeting held a discussion on traffic problems confronting the four ...

Dr. Ernest Estevez is the keeper of all lore nautical in our part of the world. For more than three decades he has practiced his craft at Mote Marine Laboratory, publishing scores of technical papers ...