This Mother’s Day weekend on Florida’s Gulf Coast, some mothers will be laboring under cover of darkness, crawling ashore, ...

Some Bradenton Beach police officers signaled opposition to unionizing in a letter to city officials while a Change.org ...

Motherhood often extends beyond a single household, playing out in school hallways and through a network of families who rely ...

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Snook season ended April 30 and Anna Maria Island anglers are sliding right into the next best thing: Tarpon season. The indicators are apparent as the lovebugs have arrived in force and the royal ...

An angler fishes from a boat April 29 near the T-end of the Anna Maria City Pier, where Tampa Bay Marine employees work to ...

The Islander is a free weekly community newspaper serving Anna Maria Island. There is no charge for our standard obituary, including survivors, services, photo and other lifetime information for ...

This Mother’s Day weekend on Florida’s Gulf Coast, some mothers will be laboring under cover of darkness, crawling ashore, digging deep into sand and slipping back into the Gulf before sunrise after ...

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The Manatee County Tourist Development Council heard encouraging tourism numbers for March at its April 27 meeting, with high occupancy and millions in visitor spending, though researchers warned that ...

In Southwest Florida for the week ending May 3, K. brevis, the red tide organism, was observed at background concentrations offshore of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. In Northwest Florida, K.