Bradenton FL

Existing McCown Towers residents oppose it, but the neighborhood association wants public parking. Host: More public housing for seniors in walking distance from downtown. What’s not to like? Well, the devil is in the details, and in this case, that’s parking. On Monday, the Sarasota City Commission decided to go...

Community activists hope the financial literacy center will become an attraction and reverse enrollment decline. Host: Sarasota’s Newtown community is seeing a transformation. For decades, the Booker schools have been the cultural anchors of this neighborhood. Today, faced with dropping enrollment, these historic...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A new approach to supporting the neurodivergent community focuses on helping people thrive on their own terms. Neurodivergent is used to describe people whose brains process information, learn, and behave differently from other people, while it also encompasses conditions like autism, ADHD and...

All aboard for a Sarasota original in Florida that feels like a secret platform to the past. Bob’s Train is tucked just off Fruitville Road, and the moment you step inside the vintage railcars, the everyday world slips away. You get nostalgia, flavor, and storytelling packed into a compact...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a detainer on a Guatemalan apprehended for driving without a license in Sumter County. Mateo Zavala Mejia, 28, of Bradenton, was driving a white Nissan passenger car in Bushnell around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a deputy checked the vehicle’s license plate and...

On Tuesday, the superintendent updated board members on $40 million plans for Booker Elementary and Middle, and more. Host: The makeover of Sarasota’s public schools has taken on a dynamic of its own, a dynamic that’s going way beyond countering a challenge by for-profit operators asking to move into underused school...

The world’s first underwater and airborne drone has a new St. Petersburg home uniquely suited to explore once-unfathomable use cases. SubUAS quietly opened an outpost in the fall at the Maritime and Defense Technology Hub. The startup’s engineers re-imagined every aspect of drone technology to build a system that...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The Venice Police Department is warning residents of a scam involving dating websites. In social media posts, police say scammers are creating believable profiles on dating sites and social media to quickly build trust, then invent “emergencies” to pressure people for money or personal...

Some celebrate Nicolás Maduro’s removal. Luis Velásquez is not among them. Host: On the streets of Weston and Doral, the South Florida suburbs with the highest concentration of Venezuelan immigrants and exiles, many responded to the removal of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. armed forces with an outburst of joy and hope....

A national company that imports and distributes stone has opened a showroom and warehouse in Manatee County. UMI Stone’s newest location is at 7427 15th St. E., just north of the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. Spanning 20,000 square feet, the shop includes a modern showroom with an indoor slab gallery...