Sarasota FL

Big C's Chopped BBQ on 9th Street South was temporarily closed for a few days by state inspectors after documenting 23 violations during a September 3, 2025, inspection, according to the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation in Pinellas County, Florida.

Longboat Key’s town hall workshop meeting could potentially decide whether or not to rename Gulf of Mexico Drive.

Giovanny Aldama Garcia of Ruskin, has had charges dropped in connection with allegedly abandoning his dog, Trooper, during Hurricane Milton.

To replace himself as city engineer, Sarasota’s new Public Works Director Nikesh Patel had look only as far as the city of Holmes Beach on Anna Maria Island. With three decades of public and private sector engineering experience, that’s where Sage Kamiya was serving as public works director.

ENGLEWOOD — An Englewood man is facing felony assault charges after hitting a person with a baton at a park, sheriff’s deputies say.

The charter school expansion law fuels local upheaval. The same Suncoast lawmakers who voted earlier this year to let charter schools move into underused public campuses have stayed quiet as a Miami-based charter operator’s early push to occupy local schools set off confusion and concern among parents and educators.

Public schools make up the majority of hurricane evacuation shelters in Florida. These shelters have been built with taxpayer dollars and are available to the public in the event of a significant storm event. All the designated hurricane evacuation shelters in Manatee and Sarasota County are public schools. There are...

NORTH PORT — North Port Police Sgt. James Shield acted quickly to save a small child with developmental delays running down U.S. 41 earlier this month.

Meanwhile, the planning commission postponed an amendment to allow permanent occupancy of RVs in mobile home parks. Host: Expansion of sports amenities and other public uses could be underway soon near Lakewood Ranch. On Thursday, the Manatee County Planning Commission recommended approval of more than doubling the...

The next phases of development include a makeover of the 10th Street Boat Ramp. Host: The new park sprouting around the Van Wezel complex near downtown Sarasota is now expanding north. On Monday, the city commission will discuss releasing another $20 million for phases three and four of The Bay, and that includes a...