Sarasota FL

A record-breaking listing for a 10,001-square-foot Crystal Waters estate was removed July 31, 2025, 161 days after being put on the market. Listed for $31.5 million, it would have been the most expensive property ever sold on Siesta Key if purchased at asking price. The estate at 8501 Midnight Pass Road features...

SARASOTA, FL — A beloved Sarasota Italian restaurant is officially back in business after rebuilding from devastating storm damage, marking a feel-good local comeback with broader implications for restaurants, tourism, and commercial corridors across Southwest Florida. Nonno Umberto Seafood & Steakhouse — formerly...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Today: It’s been yet another beautiful day on the Suncoast with high temperatures in the 70s on the coast and near 80 degrees inland. Tonight: Tonight will be chilly, in the 50s, with areas of patchy fog once again, dropping visibility down to nearly a half mile.

As our drought continues in Southwest Florida, freshwater ponds are continuing to decrease in volume while tidal areas remain full.

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...