When Iain Webb, who took over the artistic direction of the Sarasota Ballet in 2007, is brainstorming programming possibilities for a new season, he confesses he often channels his excess creative ...

Sarasota County commissioners moved to block developers from building large apartment complexes next to rural homes and farmland. Via Suncoast Searchlight illustration using a Sarasota County map. By ...

Nancy Webb Rasmussen passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 24th surrounded by the love of those she cherished. Nancy was born on March 12,1946 in Sarasota, Florida to the late Johnie B. and Ruth ...

The Senate has slowed the momentum on a House-backed proposal to transfer the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida. On Monday, the Senate Appropriations ...

This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. Del Taco closed five restaurants in Florida in 2025 and all 14 in Georgia from Feb. 17-20. The franchise operating its Atlanta ...

Despite calls from residents of the Del Webb community in Aurora asking for the neighborhood’s developer to address existing issues before further construction, the Aurora City Council has approved ...

Del Taco abruptly closed all its restaurants in one southern state. Five Del Taco restaurants closed in late 2025. See list of current Florida Del Taco locations. Del Taco has abruptly closed all its ...

A mass shooting across Fort Lauderdale and Sarasota, Florida, resulted in the deaths of six victims and the shooter. The victims included an 18-year-old son, his 46-year-old mother, and four other ...

UPDATE — 2/12/2026 at 11:50 a.m.: The victims of the shooting in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida, have been identified. Multiple people were found dead after a shooting took place inside of a ...

Construction began late last year on two large upscale housing developments aimed at older adults and empty nesters, one in southern Union County, the other in Sunbury in Delaware County. Del Webb, ...

Six people in Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are dead in what police say is a cross-state murder spree by the same suspect Wednesday morning. The suspect was also found dead, authorities said.