In the wake of Snooty the manatee’s tragic drowning, one local man wants to immortalize the famous sea cow in downtown Bradenton. He has the signatures, but will they be enough?

Snooty, once the world’s oldest known manatee, entertained guests at the South Florida Museum for decades.  Sadly …

Annual Motorcycle and Music Festival was previously held in Lakewood Ranch

SARASOTA -- Thunder by the Bay might just roar back through Downtown Sarasota!

The motorcycle and music festival previously filled Main Street for 18 years before relocating to The Premier Sports Campus in Lakewood Ranch, a move largely prompted by …

The hotel features a rooftop pool and bar!

For three years, Sarasotans have been eyeing the growing, 18-story hotel tower at the gateway to the John Ringling Bridge.

Now, they can use it to overlook Sarasota.

The 255-room Westin Sarasota will welcome its first guests Friday when it has …

When completed, the $15 million structure would have 500 spaces!

ST. ARMANDS KEY — Plans for a new city parking garage on St. Armands Circle are nearing the finish line this summer.

The roughly four-story, 500-space parking structure will replace the surface parking lot on the northeastern corner of the …

A series of structures designed to fight erosion will mimic a coral reef.

SARASOTA — A new pilot project will test whether a “living seawall” might be the future of the city’s fight against erosion along the waterfront on Sarasota Bay.

The $300,000 project will be in addition to …

Photo credit: Sarasota Bay resident bottlenose dolphin Ginger with her second calf. Photo taken by the Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research Program under National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Research Permit No. 20455.

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“Ginger,” a Sarasota Bay resident bottlenose dolphin, rehabilitated at Mote Marine Laboratory, was observed with …

Jimmy Buffett’s laid-back island lifestyle is coming to the west Bradenton development of Harbour Isles.

In his hit song, “One Particular Harbour,” Jimmy Buffett sings about an idyllic island destination “sheltered from the wind, where the children play on the shore each day and all are safe within …

Rendering shows the future town center of Lakewood Ranch’s Waterside community which is now under development and will bring more than 5,000 homes to the area. Lakewood Ranch ranks third in the nation for new home sales midway through 2017. Artist’s rendering

The World Rowing Championships are coming to Sarasota’s Nathan Benderson Park (the first time the prestigious event has been held in the United States in more than 20 years), thousands more people will know what locals have already known: Sarasota is a mecca for rowers of every age …

Paul Thorpe's mission restored the city's deteriorating economic, cultural, and social worlds