Bradenton FL

Key takeaway: Neal Communities, one of the region's more active homebuilders, is operating amid a sentiment of slow or no growth, particularly in its Manatee County home base. Core challenge: Coming to a middle ground between officials looking to slow growth and Florida's population growth that makes that housing...

Twin waterspouts appeared off the coast of Bradenton captivating residents as they swirled over the Gulf before drifting safely away without causing damage.

Faced with shrinking enrollment, behavior coach, career advisor and substitute teacher positions will go unfilled. Host: For the first time, the Sarasota School District is recognizing public schools here are facing a financial crisis. In an email to employees, the superintendent announced a hiring freeze. WSLR...

Cassandra Morgan, the victim's mother, said the shooting happened Tuesday just after 9 p.m. near Northwest 47th Avenue.

Twin waterspouts were seen in Bradenton, Florida, just south of Tampa Bay, on June 22.

Thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of St. Petersburg for this weekend's Pride celebrations.

Miranda Monahan stood outside her ex-husband’s car one night in 2017 in a Lakewood Ranch Medical Center parking lot, crying. Her three young daughters sat in the car, staring back at their mom. A drug addict at that point in her life for some two decades — something she...

Sarasota rider says this is an opportunity to ‘see a Florida that’s disappearing’. Host: The Great Florida Cattle Drive is returning this January, and WSLR reporter Ramon Lopez has the details. Imogene Yarborough: We might have a little rain, and it might be kind-of cool, but we...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. – The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) conducted a comprehensive county-wide sweep for outstanding warrants on Monday, June 24. The intelligence-led operation, designed to locate and apprehend wanted individuals, was a success, resulting in 21 arrests within a concentrated 12-hour period....

Developers plan to transform the vacant lot that once housed Bradenton’s city hall into a 7-story luxury apartment building with nearly 400 units. The City of Bradenton’s Community Redevelopment Agency Board unanimously supported the idea at its June 11 meeting and moved the application forward. The action directed...