Sarasota FL

Manatee County commissioners approved an ordinance that will regulate the use of electric bicycles on roads, pathways, sidewalks, crosswalks and intersections in unincorporated Manatee County. After several residents complained about teenagers taunting them and riding recklessly on electric bikes around the Lakewood...

The City of Bradenton will keep its school zone speed cameras for the new school year, despite Manatee County ending its program following public criticism. While county commissioners voted in March to end their camera program after issuing more than 55,000 tickets, the Bradenton Police Department says the city’s...

Lakewood Ranch Medical Center recognized as high performing among three procedures and/or conditions. Lakewood Ranch Medical Center has been named among U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospitals edition as a High Performing hospital for heart attack, hip fracture and knee replacement. This is the highest...

Florida's Department of Government Efficiency is targeting at least three local counties. Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Manatee counties will undergo further auditing and on-site review.

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Divers, kayakers, boaters, and volunteers met Sunday morning for an underwater cleanup of Tarpon Basin. Sarasota Bay Watch organized the cleanup to help remove as much debris as possible from Tarpon Basin. “This is a spot where we were told a bunch of rolled up carpet...

SARASOTA — A teenager headed in the wrong direction might find the right path because of a community service assignment by a judge in “Dorothy’s Dictionary,” directed by Kate Alexander, in the Keating Mainstage of Florida Studio Theatre.

Parks and Recreation wants to energize Sarasota’s ‘well-kept secret’. Host: Sarasota’s North Water Tower Park is a well-kept secret. Tucked between the North Tamiami Trail and Old Bradenton Road, the L-shaped 4-acre oak forest—interspersed with pastures—is hiding behind rows of single-family homes and now a rising...

Buyers of new homes on the Suncoast have little choice but to pay taxes to developer-controlled neighborhoods. Host: An analysis by Suncoast Searchlight reveals that buyers in this region have little choice but to live in neighborhoods controlled and taxed by real estate developers. Derek Gilliam reports. Derek...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Last Sunday we hit 96° at SRQ. Today we’re closer to average in the low 90s. Thunderstorm chances are low today. Saturday’s storms were limited, producing only a Trace at SRQ (less than 0.01”), while Lakewood Ranch received a third of an inch (0.33), and Nokomis just over a half inch (0.55”).

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Arrests have been made in the shooting death of a man in St. Petersburg. On Tuesday night, July 29, police responded to reports of a shooting in the 1200 block of 9th Avenue South. Officers found Reginald L. Booth, 39, with multiple gunshot wounds. He was...