Sarasota FL

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is searching for Raynaldo Wolkooski, 20, who ran away from a treatment center in the 3800 block of 7th St E, Bradenton, at about 1:13 PM on March 25, 2026. He is 5′7″ tall, weighs about 160 pounds, and was last seen wearing a blue scrubs-type shirt, possibly with a burgundy Adidas...

Findings of traffic speed study serve as basis for City Commission vote. With a unanimous vote on March 23, upon first reading of the proposed ordinance, the Sarasota city commissioners approved the lowering of the city’s speed limits from 25 mph to 20 mph on all local roadways on which a traffic study showed that...

T.J. Carney's, a popular Irish-themed bar and grill in Venice, Sarasota County, Florida, was temporarily shut down after a state inspection found rodent droppings, improper food storage, and a long list of sanitation problems at the restaurant.

Sarasota has confirmed the hiring of its first female city manager after the commission approved the contract of Karie Friling. Friling will begin on May 29 — about 21 months since Sarasota last had a permanent city manager. The city will pay her a $279,500 annual salary, with a 2% annual cost-of-living increase. She...

NOKOMIS — If you're feeling the pain of higher gas prices, imagine you're in Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman's shoes: His patrol vehicles log nearly 7 million miles a year, he said at Monday's Nokomis Area Civic Association meeting.

With double the responsibilities or more of her department head and/or constitutional officer colleagues from Clearwater to Naples, it might stand to reason that the Sarasota City Auditor and Clerk Shayla Griggs would earn twice the salary. Or, at the very least, should be slotted in a higher pay scale...

As Sarasota continues to grapple with a reasonable and enforceable sound ordinance that balances the vibrancy the city needs with the rights of enjoyment of residents in their homes, the city has solicited the assistance of Gainesville-based Siebein Acoustic. The firm is tasked to provide a technical evaluation that...

Visitors to downtown Sarasota and St. Armands Circle won’t be paying more to park in paid on-street and garage spaces, but hours will be extended and citation fees increased as the city’s Parking Division seeks to achieve operational solvency. As an enterprise fund, the Parking Division, under the...

VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Two sides in an ongoing battle over the proposed Manasota Beach Road extension met face-to-face for the first time at the Sarasota County Commission chambers. The extension was unanimously approved last August. The project has been on the county plan for more than 30 years. Developer...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Florida gas prices edged lower Thursday, including in the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro areas, even as fighting involving Iran raised new concerns about global oil supplies, according to AAA. The statewide average for regular unleaded was $3.879 a gallon,...