Nearly two years after Bradenton Beach commissioners approved the Bridge Street Resort, a 106-room mixed-use development to ...

Cooler weather brings high fish activity to local water - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Adults, kids midway in soccer season; horseshoe, golf winners - Read this weeks Sprts News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short emailed The Islander Oct. 24, reporting that the city had a barge docked at the T-end of the City ...

The 2025 stone crab season is off to a sluggish start for the working waterfront of Cortez, where crabbers and market owners ...

Holmes Beach voters soon will choose between four candidates to fill three city commission seats. Voters will cast ballots in-person 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

Brooks Sheehan, 9 months, of Philadelphia, sports a pumpkin costume for a sunset photo Oct. 16 on the beach. “He was visiting his grandparents, who live on 77th Street, Holmes Beach. He was having a ...

Cortez’s Florida Maritime Museum remains far from reopening, and Manatee County officials acknowledge that restoration ...

A low-speed vehicle sits damaged in the roadway the night of Oct. 24 near the intersection of 52nd Street and Gulf Drive in ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short emailed The Islander Oct. 17, saying there was “not much new news this week.” Short was in ...

People stroll Pine Avenue in Anna Maria during Bayfest, held Oct. 18 and presented by the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce. The annual event featured musical entertainment, food and beverage ...

Oct. 23 in favor of Mayor John Chappie’s recommendation to hire Erica Augello and the firm of Trask Daigneault LLP ...