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Mark your calendars — the 39th annual Sarasota Holiday Boat Parade of Lights returns on Saturday, December 13, 2025, bringing a festive fleet of illuminated boats gliding across Sarasota Bay. This beloved seasonal tradition, hosted by Suncoast Charities for Children in partnership with Marina Jack, transforms the...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Toys for Tots of Manatee County is bringing holiday joy to local children, but the organization is doing that work out of a temporary location, and leaders say a permanent facility would allow them to do much more. “It would be a game-changer,” Lynette White, coordinator...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A frontal boundary to our north will finally make its way south over the weekend bringing some showers and an isolated thunderstorm our way after sunset on Sunday. Most of the weekend should be ok with only a few scattered storms each day. There will be...

TAMPA - Andrew Dykes, 66, was arrested Wednesday in Ruskin. Investigators in New York believe he is responsible for the deaths of a young mother and her daughter, whose remains were discovered decades ago on Long Island. In April, homicide detectives announced that DNA testing identified the partial remains of...

A lawsuit filed by a local business owner using Florida's recent anti-camping statute compelled the city to act, highlighting tensions between state mandates and local resource shortages.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital said it's seeing a big increase in respiratory illnesses. According to the hospital, cases of some illnesses, like the flu, have jumped by more than 300% from this time last year. One pediatric emergency medicine physician said there's not one clear reason...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Fun, Smart, Talk. Our take on what’s making headlines on the Suncoast. Today, one of our Hot Topics included a discussion about the Legacy Trail getting a new link and extending the connection. If you have ideas for what topics we should discuss next, email...

Another high-end condominium downtown should rank low among Sarasota’s priorities, just like added traffic congestion and the traffic circles that come with it. But if a Naples developer has his way – and developers usually do get their way – another high-rise will join the plethora of condominiums that have led to...

NOKOMIS — For now the 31st year in a row, Robert "Bob" Enander is back with his winter wonderland of Christmas lights, all free of charge to those who visit.

TAMPA, Fla. - In a hot Publix parking lot in south St. Petersburg, Howie Guja, the guy with the megawatt smile and the Publishers Clearing House blazer, took a selfie behind a minivan as he held an oversize novelty check for $10,000. Guja and a camera operator named George had...