Bradenton FL

ANCLOTE, Fla. - The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a missing fisherman who was last seen on Friday around 10 p.m. about 82 miles west of Anclote. Robert Luka, 44, left the Port of Hudson at around 2 p.m. on a commercial fishing boat. The Pasco Sheriff's Office says he stopped in the area of 124th St. Ct. W, Cortez...

Color splashes across cottage walls, music drifts from porches, and studio doors swing open like invitations. At the Village of the Arts in Bradenton, Florida, creativity is not just displayed, it is lived and shared. You stroll streets lined with 1920s and 1930s homes reborn as galleries, bakeries, and workshops....

Ever walked into a place in Florida and wondered if time simply decided to slow down?. At El Cap Restaurant in St. Pete, Florida, it feels like the city pressed pause in the best possible way. The griddle sizzles, the shoestring fries snap, and the menu reads like a love...

An only child, Blair Sellers always has been independent and driven. When it came to a career, he didn’t want to climb a corporate ladder. Instead, he dreamed of becoming a business owner. The idea of a coffee shop always was in the back of his mind. Now 26,...

Tony D’s Sub Shop, a new old-school Italian sandwich spot serving hot and cold subs made from scratch, has officially opened at 217 Central Avenue in downtown St. Pete. With green checkerboard vinyl floors, family photos lining exposed brick and white walls, and a counter stocked with meats and cheeses, Tony D’s...

Viva La Vida Cuban American Cuisine recently expanded to lunch and dinner service at Beneva Village Shoppes in Sarasota, about a month after owners Alejandro and Traci Lazo opened the upscale Latin restaurant for lunch service at 3440 Clark Road in mid-December. “We wanted everybody to come in little by little and...

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, director and producer Ken Burns spoke in Sarasota Monday about how funding cuts affect filmmakers like him, and how history lends context to current events. The government's recent cuts to public broadcasting, by rescinding money in 2025 that had been allocated by Congress,...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A preliminary autopsy report shows hypothermia as the probable cause of death for 4-year-old Jonathan Bolley, the Manatee County boy who went missing from his father’s home on New Year’s Eve. Bolley’s body was found partially submerged in a creek Fridayn January 2, about...

Atlanta-based real estate firm Quinn Residences has delivered its first residential community in the greater Tampa Bay area, adding new rental housing in one of Manatee County’s fastest-growing corridors. The company completed Quinn Residences at Moccasin Wallow in Parrish, a purpose-built rental community with 284...

Come November, voters could be faced with another decision regarding how much they want to spend to conserve land in Manatee County. In 2020, residents overwhelmingly passed the Conservation and Parks Referendum with 71% of voters in favor of being taxed an additional .15 mills and allowing Manatee County to bond up...