Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation plans ...

Recovery efforts continue across the Bay Area after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, but several area beaches are starting to reopen. Kamala Harris' Crowd Size Crushes Previous Record With Ellipse ...

As of Tuesday afternoon, Manatee County Jail is not planning on evacuating approximately 1,200 inmates, even as state and local officials stress that Florida residents should heed evacuation warnings ...

Construction on Upper Manatee River Road is underway now and is expected to be completed by fall 2027. Ogden Clark, Public ...

A few days could make all the difference for keeping your property insurance policy, if your policy was about to expire, or ...

The insane evacuation traffic made it a little over six hours ... Original photo by Riley Weymer Not everyone in Manatee County was as lucky as we were. A friend of mine lost their roof. A friend of a ...

On Wednesday night, Burke, his mother and his aunt defied mandatory evacuation orders and rode out Hurricane ... As of Thursday afternoon, Manatee County’s website listed no open shelters. The cost of ...

The cold beer and the customers were flowing, as Duffy's Tavern in Holmes Beach reopened on Friday after two months.

A 2-year-old manatee was found 1.5 miles from open water in a small pond near the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area in Dixie ...

Sea cow, not pond cow. A juvenile manatee was rescued from a small pond in Florida — a mile and a half from open water — after being stranded there due to the storm surge of Hurricane Helene.

Manatee County commissioners approved a developer’s request to release about 10 acres of conservation easements along Cooper ...