Sarasota FL

SARASOTA — One month after a resolution was passed that punishes student protests on campus, the Sarasota County School Board is codifying the consequences.

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Sarasota, FL – Downed wires shut both directions of Bee Ridge Road at Aberdeen Drive, disrupting Sarasota traffic. According to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, deputies closed all lanes of Bee Ridge...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - With extreme drought conditions persisting in our area, measures have been put into place by both the Southwest Florida Water Management District and the Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority to conserve water. Sarasota, DeSoto and Charlotte counties, along with the City of...

The Florida House of Representatives unanimously approved a scaled-back bill Wednesday to create a special district around the booming University Town Center area — a proposal that would still give one of the region’s largest developers significant influence over the new entity spanning more than 1,400 acres across...

The Coalition of City Neighborhood Associations of Sarasota (CCNA) is encouraging its members to attend one of three meetings this month that the City of Sarasota will host on traffic calming issues. The sessions have been planned to enable the public “to learn about the work completed to evaluate speeding...

ENGLEWOOD — Skimboarder Etienne Beaugrand, known as ET, said sometimes you have to wait up to 20 minutes for the right wave.

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - Drivers are stuck in an over 7 mile gridlock on I-75 southbound, due to a major multi-vehicle crash. The crash is just past the State Road 70 on-ramp, and earlier, all but one lane was open. Delay times are at over 30 minutes from the...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A routine workday for Katherine McCloskey took an alarming turn when she arrived to start her shift at a hair salon in Venice Commons, only to find the entire shopping plaza wrapped in crime scene tape. “Little concerning because they had a complete whole shopping center...

Homeowners who live near the site to purchase it instead. This week, Sarasota County Administrator Jonathan Lewis publicly informed the county commissioners that the county’s planned purchase of the Forest Lakes Golf Course in Sarasota no longer will take place. Instead, The Sarasota News Leader has learned, a group...

A now inactive Sarasota laboratory will pay $980,000 to resolve allegations it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida. Allin IP DX LLC — which was based at 1. S. School Ave., Suite 900 — violated...