Sarasota FL

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A routine patrol off the Manatee County coastline turned into a marine rescue Friday when deputies spotted a shark tangled in fishing gear near the shoreline. Deputies with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit say they were patrolling near Manatee Public Beach when...

Jan. 12, 2026 – Sarasota Memorial Health Care Center announced the opening of Sarasota Memorial’s new, accredited Sleep Disorder Center, a comprehensive program dedicated to evaluating and treating a wide range of sleep disorders that can impact long-term health. Community members experiencing loud snoring, witnessed...

Trespassing: Months after a security guard called police on a group of kids fishing on private property without permission, the perpetrators were finally identified. A police officer on patrol cracked the case after he saw a group of people at a closed golf course, the same course where trespassing calls were...

ANCLOTE, Fla. - The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a missing fisherman who was last seen on Friday around 10 p.m. about 82 miles west of Anclote. Robert Luka, 44, left the Port of Hudson at around 2 p.m. on a commercial fishing boat. The Pasco Sheriff's Office says he stopped in the area of 124th St. Ct. W, Cortez...

Color splashes across cottage walls, music drifts from porches, and studio doors swing open like invitations. At the Village of the Arts in Bradenton, Florida, creativity is not just displayed, it is lived and shared. You stroll streets lined with 1920s and 1930s homes reborn as galleries, bakeries, and workshops....

An only child, Blair Sellers always has been independent and driven. When it came to a career, he didn’t want to climb a corporate ladder. Instead, he dreamed of becoming a business owner. The idea of a coffee shop always was in the back of his mind. Now 26,...

Viva La Vida Cuban American Cuisine recently expanded to lunch and dinner service at Beneva Village Shoppes in Sarasota, about a month after owners Alejandro and Traci Lazo opened the upscale Latin restaurant for lunch service at 3440 Clark Road in mid-December. “We wanted everybody to come in little by little and...

Award-winning documentary filmmaker, director and producer Ken Burns spoke in Sarasota Monday about how funding cuts affect filmmakers like him, and how history lends context to current events. The government's recent cuts to public broadcasting, by rescinding money in 2025 that had been allocated by Congress,...

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Sarasota and Manatee Counties will offer its nationally acclaimed Family-to-Family Education Class, a free, eight-session program designed to support family members, significant others, and friends of individuals living with mental health conditions. The class will be...

At a recent Development Review Committee meeting, the Mira Mar redevelopment project in downtown Sarasota received approval for its site plans. It was the Mira Mar’s second site plan submittal to the DRC. After the first submittal, the project’s team still needed to address comments related to zoning; utilities,...