Sarasota FL

BRADENTON, Fla. — Ann Hunsader is the fourth-grade reading teacher at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal School. And for her, the best part of the job is her students. Ann Hunsader is a fourth-grade reading teacher at Saint Stephen's Episcopal School in Bradenton. She's been a teacher for 30 years,...

MANATEE COUNTY – State and local lawmakers reacted to the proposed development of a cruise ship terminal in northwest Manatee County on the Knott-Cowen tract of land located north of Rattlesnake Key and seaward of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The proposed cruise port, a collaboration between cruise ship terminal...

Key takeaway: Sarasota County is buying a complex it has been leasing since 2023 to house the medical examiner’s office on Fruitville Road for $21.6 million. Core challenge: Getting the facility built required a public-private partnership to enable a faster delivery time than the government process allows, according...

The fishing was slow, the redfish dour and uninterested, the result, most likely, of a cold front that the Tampa-Sarasota area just could not shake. The company, however, was stellar. I was with Captain Greg Peterson, the excellent tarpon and redfish guide, and Rusty Chinnis, the indefatigable warrior of these waters...

Dispute: Having only recently met and spending one night together, a man was already demonstrating tendencies of jealousy when his new girlfriend dared to speak to another man. An officer responded to a resort on Lido Beach where he encountered the woman in the lobby, where she was crying and “visibly upset”...

Fox 13’s Heather Healy shares essential winter safety tips for your pets and issues a heartfelt call for blanket donations to local shelters.

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)—The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is reminding the community that unregistered dirt bikes are not street legal after seeing an increase. The sheriff’s office is seeing an increase in juveniles operating electric dirt bikes on public roads. “These vehicles are typically not street legal....

Sarasota has a "broken windows" problem. In a nutshell, the broken windows theory of criminology states that ignoring small crimes leads to more crime overall and a lower quality of life. And that's why, according to the theory, crime enforcement must address the small stuff right away. In Sarasota, the "broken...

A Sarasota man accused of fatally shooting his ex-partner in a hotel near the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in December 2021 appeared in court for the first day of his trial. Brennan Wakey, 29, is charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. If he is found guilty of murder, the maximum...

Imagine a place where your grocery bill gets slashed in half without sacrificing quality—that’s the everyday miracle happening at Detwiler’s Farm Market in Palmetto, Florida. This isn’t some extreme couponing fantasy or too-good-to-be-true marketing ploy. It’s the genuine shopping experience that has Floridians...