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The move comes amid heightened public outrage over a privately proposed cruise terminal near the mouth of Tampa Bay.

The roar of high-speed boats and the glow of drones over the Manatee River will once again draw huge crowds to downtown ...

Jonathan Elwing accused of child sexual battery, possession of child pornography.

On Wednesday, Senator Jim Boyd (R-Manatee) filed an amendment to a coastal resiliency bill that would expand dredging protections over the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve, an area recently targeted for ...

LEE COUNTY, Fla.- Crews are on scene removing a manatee from the waterways of Manatee Park. On Thursday, Lee County Parks and ...

A 53-year-old construction worker was killed Tuesday afternoon in a construction zone for a new subdivision in Manatee County ...

A water main break in downtown Bradenton is causing traffic delays on Manatee Avenue, city officials said Thursday morning. 15th Street West is closed between Sixth Avenue West and Seventh Avenue West ...

President Moez Limayem echoed prior comments made by USF leadership on the contentious issue of handing over the Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida.

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...

Those include Bradenton Area River Regatta, which bills itself as Manatee County's largest spectator event; St. Barbara Greek Festival in Sarasota, and Venice Italian Feast & Carnival in south ...

Two of the manatees were rescued from the Fort Myers-Bonita Springs area in 2024 and released Feb. 18. according to Save the Manatee Club.