Sarasota FL

NORTH PORT — A local property owner previously fined for improper clearing will not be issued additional gopher tortoise related fines by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

A North Carolina community gathered this past weekend to honor the life of 18-year-old Giovanni Pelletier. Giovanni was found dead in a Florida pond last month, just days after he texted his mother asking for help. The teen traveled from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Florida in July to spend time with relatives. On...

PALMETTO, Fla. — Turning Points, a nonprofit that provides homeless assistance, will bring services to help prevent homelessness directly to two Manatee County schools, if approved by school board members Tuesday. Kathleen Cramer, executive director of Turning Points, says they hope to start providing services at the...

Suspicious incident: Police were called to a residence after a woman woke at 3 a.m. and thought she saw, to her horror, a crouching figure in the corner of her room. Police surveyed all rooms and the garage of the house but found no evidence of an intruder. Police wrote in a report that nothing seemed out of place...

VENICE — Police are investigating the death of a man found in his Venice home.

DaVinci, an 11-month-old Standard Poodle, needs a new home because he's looking for the perfect family to celebrate his upcoming first birthday on September 1st. This handsome 50-pound boy is currently in foster care through Love4Paws in Sarasota County, FL, and comes with an adoption fee of $500.

Horseback riding companies have agreed to pause operations along Palma Sola Bay for one month in an attempt to end the years-long debate over whether horses pollute the bay. Recently, more advanced sampling of Palma Sola Bay found horse DNA was a source of bacteria around Palma Sola Causeway, prompting a lengthy...

PARRISH, Fla. (WFLA)— A man was hospitalized Monday night after an officer-involved shooting in Manatee County. On Sept. 15, at 10 p.m., the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a domestic disturbance at the 13000 block of Shimmering Amethyst Court in Parrish. At the home, officers found the suspect, Hayden...

A man was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder after a St. Petersburg father was fatally shot with his one-year-old daughter in the car.

Bradenton’s wastewater plant recently spilled an estimated 1.7 million gallons of sewage into the Manatee River during an overflow at the plant, a report filed by the city says. It’s the largest spill reported this year at the wastewater plant. It comes as the city is in the midst of millions of dollars in upgrades...