Sarasota FL

"Transparency is not an event; it is a discipline." This is what Sarasota County Tax Collector Mike Moran wrote in a recent Herald-Tribune guest column to defend his push for a 50% budget increase for his agency (" Sarasota County deserves a top tax office. We will deliver it ," Feb. 28). Well, parents in the...

Florida in March has a certain kind of magic. The weather is warm but comfortable, the skies are bright, and the outdoors suddenly becomes the best place to be. But here is a question worth asking. What if one of the most beautiful experiences in Florida is not a beach at all?

One resident filed a lawsuit to roll back the lease. Host: A plan to lease hundreds of acres of golf courses and green space in The Meadows to Benderson Development has sparked a lawsuit over the future of one of Sarasota’s oldest and largest planned developments. Suncoast Searchlight reporter Derek Gilliam brings...

Key takeaway: Local pet retail chain DOGPerfect is starting to franchise, prompted by success in the years since the company’s founding in 2019. Core challenge: The owners, Linda and Rob Emery, are learning they are in a new business: selling a franchise business that sells dog food and dog toys rather than selling...

Using DNA left at the scene, Bradenton police say they identified a suspect that broke into Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School in November. Surveillance video captured Joshua Wilbar, 43, riding a bike on the school’s campus with a seemingly full white bag in hand on Sunday, Nov. 2, the Bradenton Police Department said...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Sarasota County Mosquito Management has introduced a new flock of sentinel chickens as part of its annual program to monitor mosquito-borne disease activity. The county said chickens do not get sick from diseases such as West Nile virus and several types of encephalitis. Instead, the birds...

Charlotte County, Florida – Authorities say a Florida woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her roommate to death and later driving the victim’s truck to another city following the incident. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded Sunday night to a home on Gewant Boulevard...

Tigers chuff in Sarasota, and you can hear it up close. Big Cat Habitat & Gulf Coast Sanctuary rescues majestic animals and invites you to meet them with respect. Expect heart thumps, happy tears, and stories you will tell for years. Here is how to make the most of this...

A Manatee County jury found a Lakewood Ranch mother guilty of manslaughter after prosecutors said she backed over and killed her 2-year-old son in the family’s driveway . After several hours of deliberation on Wednesday, jurors convicted Brittany Geiman, 33, in the March 2024 death of her son, Maverick, following a...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - A Bradenton man has been charged with burglarizing Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School after DNA evidence and surveillance video helped identify him, police said. Joshua Wilbar, 43, was charged in connection with the break-in, the Bradenton Police Department said in a social media post....