Sarasota FL

A Sarasota restaurateur has died, shortly after opening a highly anticipated new restaurant that he spent about a year renovating. Samuel Ray, who co-owned Tsunami Sushi & Hibachi Grill in Lakewood Ranch and previously in downtown Sarasota, as well as the recently opened Hanami Sushi Cocktails & Grill in the Rosemary District, has died. He was 34. Ray co-owned the businesses with Jeffrey Karasawa...

SARASOTA — One bad inning helped dig a hole for Venice that it simply couldn’t climb out of in the end.

From April 16 to April 19 at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, longtime Wellington resident Justin Hicks made his debut in the Senior PGA Championship, which is golf’s most storied major championship for seniors over age 50. While Hicks didn’t win, he finished in a tie for 17th...

When a lumberman swapped stacks of plywood for stacks of bargains, he never imagined his new venture would grow into a sprawling weekend tradition. This massive Florida flea market now greets thousands of bargain hunters every single weekend. You will find a sprawling mix of indoor and outdoor spaces, with...

Corps project manager tells city engineer ‘sand placed to north will work its way down there’. In December 2025, the website of the City of Sarasota featured a map that showed the limits of the Lido Key Beach Renourishment Project planned to begin in late January of this year.

Doctors at Sarasota Memorial Hospital say a new early detection program is helping catch more lung cancers before symptoms begin and when the disease is most treatable.

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Today: We’ll have another nice day today under a mix of sun and clouds… warm and humid for sure as highs are forecast to be in the low 80s for the beaches and in the low 90s inland!. This Weekend: Our cold front is...

During April 21 meeting, board members requested more details about staff plans for site. During their regular meeting on April 21, the Sarasota County commissioners agreed to wait until their regular meeting on May 5 to consider whether they should adopt a resolution authorizing staff to issue $20,770,000 in bonds to pay for 2.04 acres of property known as The Boatyard, which is located...

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office is expanding its surveillance capabilities, tapping a state fund to purchase a software platform that offers AI-powered data analysis with the stroke of a key. Promising to use the technology to investigate serious international crimes like human trafficking, the agency netted nearly $1 million...

A Bradenton man will spend more than a decade in prison after troopers said they found drugs, a gun and thousands of dollars in cash during a January 2024 traffic stop on Interstate 75. A Manatee County judge sentenced 39-year-old William Henry Caldwell IV to 13 years in prison, including a seven-year minimum mandatory term, after a jury convicted him of...