Sarasota FL

Local officials thought a dispute over who would pay to collect a voter-approved school tax had been settled when Sarasota County commissioners agreed in a surprise vote this week to resume covering the millions of dollars withheld by Tax Collector Mike Moran. Turns out, the fight isn’t over. Behind...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Mother’s Day is usually filled with flowers, cards and celebrations at home. But for one Sarasota mother, this year’s holiday will look very different. Nearly 2-month-old Allani LaShawn Banks has spent every day of her life inside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Sarasota...

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Community resource officers with the Venice Police Department will begin issuing water restrictions violation citations instead of warnings starting Monday, May 11. Right now, drought has become one of the biggest buzzwords in southwest Florida lately. And now watering restrictions are becoming part of daily life,...

Ava Lasseter does not like the view in front of her Sarasota County home. A house under construction. Port-a-potties. And, a few weeks ago, a sprinkler running mid-day while Southwest Florida grapples with its most severe drought in nearly a decade. So she filed a complaint with Sarasota County over...

A Sarasota property that was home to Architectural Salvage for more than 20 years has changed hands. Located at 1093 Central Ave., the 0.51-acre site sold for $1.8 million. Architectural Salvage, a business known for selling one-of-a-kind items from antiques to lumber to memorabilia, announced in February that it would be winding down its brick-and-mortar operations. Owner Jesse...

Supporters of University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (USF-SM) have only a few more days to convince Florida legislators that the local campus is worth saving. Legislators meet in Tallahassee to begin the process of deciding who gets money and who doesn’t during the budget session May 12-28. USF-SM is...

A Palmetto man died early Wednesday morning after being hit by a car on U.S. Highway 41, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. A 27-year-old woman driving a Cadillac Escalade was traveling south on U.S. 41, approaching Scale Avenue, around 1:20 a.m. when the crash happened, troopers said. A pedestrian, the 43-year-old Palmetto man, was on the shoulder of...

Get ready for a vibrant celebration this May! The 16th Annual Be Fabulous Music & Arts Pride Fest is making a grand return to Sarasota’s Five Points Park on May 9, 2026. This isn’t just any event; it’s a lively gathering that showcases love, diversity, and community spirit, drawing folks from Sarasota, Bradenton, and even beyond.

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – A St. Petersburg man is behind bars after Florida Highway Patrol investigators determined he fled the scene of a fatal Seffner collision by calling a rideshare. Christopher Gage Everson, 27, was arrested at 11:00 AM on May 7, following a weeks-long investigation into the three-vehicle wreck.

Pen hit paper March 2 in the gymnasium at Sarasota Christian School. Ben Milliken, sitting before a crowd of family and friends, scribbled his signature in ink. His college destination had been decided, and with it, his recruitment came to a close — or so he thought. Certainties are...