FDOT provides exclusive look inside, at the top of the Sunshine Skyway
The Sunshine Skyway is a Tampa Bay landmark used by tens of thousands of people each day.
Midnight Gunfire Leaves One Dead, Another Wounded In St. Petersburg
Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – St. Petersburg police are currently...
Manatee County water shutoff planned Friday in Palma Sola area
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Manatee County Utilities plans to shut off water Friday in part of the Palma Sola area for a fire hydrant installation. The planned outage is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 17, according to a county water-off notice issued Thursday. Affected areas include:
City of Bradenton: Ward 4
The City of Bradenton’s wastewater infrastructure is a large and complex network, comprising more than 270 miles of pipe, including 65 miles of aging clay and cast-iron lines, 64 lift stations, and a Water Reclamation Facility that treats millions of gallons each day. Much of this infrastructure is aging, and addressing it is one of the most important responsibilities we have to our...
Condo group panel decries outcome of Downtown Master Plan
Just more than one year into its two-year mandate to develop and recommend an update to the 2020 Downtown Sarasota Master Plan, the direction the 13-member City Commission panel remains unclear. In the midst of the ad-hoc committee’s work, the Downtown Sarasota Condominium Association assembled a panel to discuss with...
Villages of Amazon South expansion faces denial in Parrish
The Manatee County Planning Commission voted 4-1 on April 16 to recommend denial of a proposal to expand the Villages of Amazon South, which would add housing, healthcare and commercial capacity along the U.S. 301 corridor in Parrish. The project, led by Neal Land & Neighborhoods, spans about 1,032 acres...
Man speaks out after escaping deadly Sarasota house fire that killed his mother
SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - More than a week after a devastating house fire in Sarasota, one survivor is now sharing the painful memories of the night that changed his life forever. Fire crews were called to a home on the 4100 block of Arrow Place in the Nottingham subdivision around...
‘Stole my life from me.’ Victim’s family speaks out in Manatee murder sentencing
A Palmetto man is headed to prison for more than a decade after he shot a man to death at a homeless camp. A Manatee County judge sentenced 30-year-old Eric Lee Pompey Jr. to 15 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation on Wednesday after he previously pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder with a firearm in the...
St. Pete man wants to buy long-shuttered Haslam’s bookstore, and he’s selling 500,000 t-shirts...
Local artist Filipe Bergson wants to sell enough t-shirts to bring back Haslam’s Bookstore in St. Petersburg. The iconic indie bookstore closed its doors back in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and since then the 30,000-square-foot building has sat vacant at 2025 Central Ave.—along with the nearly 300,000 new and used books still sitting inside. […] The post St. Pete...
Drunk driver involved in 2024 fatal crash on Cortez Road sentenced to 25 years...
BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - The man who killed a woman in a DUI crash on Cortez Road in 2024 has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Cesar Navarrete, now 27, pleaded no contest to all charges Thursday and was found guilty and sentenced in Manatee County Circuit Court by Judge Frederick Mercurio, court records show.
