FBI locate missing Manatee County 15-year-old girl with older man allegedly tied to an online criminal organization suspected of trafficking juveniles for child sexual abuse material.

Installation is scheduled to begin April 21 for the first of the county’s 150,000 water-utility customers. Officials expect ...

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office has issued a Purple Alert. A Purple Alert is for an adult with cognitive disabilities.

Developer Pat Neal pitched plans to build a connector road near Parrish, and suggested an infrastructure tax to fund traffic ...

Manatee County will spend at least $2 million to hire contractors to help cleanout clogged canals ahead of the 2025 hurricane ...

Economist Jerry Parrish explains how Sarasota-Manatee has added $30 billion in GDP in 10 years, along with better job growth than Florida as a whole.

After a brutal 2024 hurricane season, commissioners are looking to residents to help fund stormwater solutions.

A civilian pilot for the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office was arrested this week after authorities said he punched two people ...

Detectives seized more than $1.7 million worth of drugs and weapons and arrested a local drug dealer, according to the ...

The sheriff’s office said Weathers had worked as a civilian pilot in its Aviation Unit since September. The Aviation Unit ...

Some Manatee County commissioners called for more infrastructure improvement before approving more development.

Several species of seagrass grow from the bottom of the shallow coastal waters that hug the Gulf Coast. Benefits of healthy ...