The story was updated with additional information from Sarasota County. Sarasota County is aiming to reduce its government spending next year to avoid a budget shortfall. A model from August 2025 ...

Sarasota County staff is preparing to float new tax options at next week’s budget workshop before the County Commission — including one tax that would not appear on property tax bills — after internal ...

Driver Doug Crile (left) and store manager Luke Mock of West Central Equipment, Martinsburg, set up their company’s display at Blair County Convention Center for last year’s Blair County Home Garden & ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Twenty-six years after an unsolved homicide left the Hunter family from Sarasota searching for answers, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of 56-year-old Kevin ...

The average market value of an acre of farmland in Michigan increased by 120% between 2002 and 2022. That’s an increase of $3,212 per acre, with the statewide average value going from $2,667 an acre ...

Sarasota County will buy waterfront property that was home to a once-popular restaurant near Siesta Key for $18.1 million, with plans to turn it into a public park and potentially a new waterfront ...

A Monterey County Board of Supervisors meeting on Feb. 3 discussed an alleged unpermitted food vendor operation based out of Merced County. Screenshot An alleged unpermitted food vendor operation ...

After Sarasota County staff was preparing to deny a permit to remove protected mangroves from publicly owned shoreline along Lemon Bay in December 2023, Commissioner Ron Cutsinger pushed to have the ...

Family members are mourning the victims of a horrific murder-suicide spree that spanned from Fort Lauderdale to Sarasota and left seven people including the alleged gunman dead. The tragedy unfolded ...

Multiple victims were found dead after a shooting at a home on Fallcrest Circle in Sarasota. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office confirmed there were no survivors and the suspect is accounted for.

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Local officials in Sarasota County have approved a new permit program aimed at regulating commercial charter and tour boats at public ramps. Supporters say it will bring order ...