Week 8 of the high school football season in Sarasota and Manatee counties featured district-swinging wins, and there were several players who made that possible. There were players with ...

CAMERON PARISH, La. (KPLC) - A Lake Charles man ran across an unusual sight while fishing in Big Lake over the weekend – a manatee. Chris Hebert shared a photo of the large aquatic mammal to a local ...

While Chris Hebert typically sees all kinds of creatures — porpoises, bobcats and raccoons to name a few — in and around Big Lake while out fishing, he didn't expect to see a manatee. Around 6 p.m. on ...

STUART — Detectives from the Stuart Police Department and the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office worked together to take a man into custody they said was a part of a fraud ring scamming people across ...

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Every year from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Hispanic Heritage Month serves not just as a commemoration of Hispanic culture, but an invitation to take stock of how it shapes our communities. In Sarasota and ...

Sarasota and Manatee area high school football teams lit up scoreboards in Week 4, with several local teams winning by multiple scores. Booker, Palmetto, Southeast and Bayshore each won critical games ...

A manatee was spotted in the Shark River in Belmar on Sunday. The mammal was seen by local photographer Kate Watt, who took a quick video as it slowly swam through the water. Other locals saw the ...

Proposed legislation threatens to weaken the MMPA by changing its goal from thriving populations to minimum survival numbers. Recent events, like the starvation of over 1,000 manatees, highlight the ...

After two years of meetings, a cohort of mid-sized Manatee County businesses is trying a different fix for hiring headaches: co-owning housing where workers will live. At an Aug. 18 “Breakfast with ...