Bradenton FL

Early morning fog prompted a Dense Fog Advisory for Tampa and surrounding areas, with visibility reduced to a quarter mile or less in some locations. The National Weather Service Dense Fog Advisory was issued at 5:37 a.m. EST and remains in effect until 10 a.m. EST. Motorists are urged to use caution, slow down, use...

Somewhere in early nineteenth-century Newtown, a clerk dipped his pen and reduced a free Black family to a single tally mark under “Free Colored.” No names. No story. Just a number for the federal ledger. But across town, in a church basement or a meeting hall lit by candle and conviction, that same family appeared...

Katie Gerhardt remembered when her parents’ Siesta Key properties sat so close to the Gulf that one parcel was entirely underwater and the other was barely dry.

VENICE — Developer Pat Neal has built 25,000 homes in his 55-year career and plans to keep building “as long as the Lord says I can.”

A trio of commercial real estate executives in the region, in looking back at 2025 and projecting 2026, share two themes. One is some form of optimism — one with the word cautious before it. The other is Florida, with its population growth, pro-business climate and other factors, continues...

1:44 a.m. Jan. 9, 5300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive. Suspicious Vehicle: A Longboat Key officer on patrol noticed a car parked and running in the lot of a business after hours. The officer approached the suspicious vehicle and found a man and woman in the back seat. The man said he and his girlfriend were, “enjoying...

When Palmetto High’s old gym was demolished in 1997, a piece of Raymond Klein Jr. went with it. There was an 8-foot by 5-foot mural of a tiger, the iconic school mascot, on the gym’s east wall and he had painted it his senior year. “Everybody in the gym could see it,” said Klein, 84, a member of PHS’s first...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Holiday shoppers are delivering a rush of business to end the year on an island where many businesses have been desperate for foot traffic. St. Armand’s businesses are getting a boost in sales after more shoppers purchase items on the island. The Giving Tree owner...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA)— A St. Petersburg man was arrested after stealing a person’s winning lottery ticket, an arrest report said. Norman Isaac, 41, was arrested after he was caught on video going through the victim’s wallet and taking their $1,000 winning lottery ticket, the arrest affidavit said. Isaac is then...

Shoppers looking for bargains, handmade items and a morning out in the community can browse a wide mix of goods during the Community Yard Sale scheduled for Saturday, February 14, 2026. The event will run from 8 a.m. to noon and blends the feel of a traditional yard sale with...