Visitation for Holmes Beach Police Officer Pete Lannon, who died June 1, will be 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday, June 5, at Brown and Sons Funeral Home, 604 43rd St. W., Bradenton. A funeral Mass will be ...

Lifelong islander Jean Bystrom captured mullet photos last week at "mom and dad's dock," Jean and Hugh Holmes Sr., in Holmes Beach, where the fish were schooling and gurgling on the bay water's ...

Dr. Ernest Estevez is the keeper of all lore nautical in our part of the world. For more than three decades he has practiced his craft at Mote Marine Laboratory, publishing scores of technical papers ...

The roof of this two-story apartment building in Town & Country Perico was destroyed as fire sparked by a lightning strike spread across the roof and through the attic while more than a dozen ...

Current red tide conditions around the state of Florida are summarized, and sampling results are mapped. Reports are updated on Friday afternoon. Current and past regional status reports are also ...

A Cortez woman has been arrested on charges of robbing three banks and is a suspect in a fourth bank robbery. Her husband also has been arrested in connection with the crimes. Michele L. Blalock, 38, ...

Another proposal has been presented for the vacant property that once held a popular restaurant and bar — Trader Jack’s — popular in the 1950s-80s in Bradenton Beach. Architect Mike McCaleb has ...

Holmes Beach burglary suspects James Davidson, top, and Ricky Graef, bottom, both of Orlando. Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested two men early Thursday morning in connection with a ...

A Manatee County circuit court judge denied a request to reduce the bond for a Bradenton Beach man arrested for engaging in sexual activities with a minor. Joseph Edmund Chiquet, 34, of the 500 block ...

Members of the Bradenton Beach Scenic Highway Committee Corridor Management Entity were surprised two weeks ago to learn that Manatee County planned to build a lifeguard station just east of Coquina ...

The mullet are running and castnetters are cashing in, though nothing like they hope to do as the season goes on. With an unusually early start, the big run of the fish will end in early January, ...

Greg Oberhofer, the owner of Quality Builders of Holmes Beach Inc., 5500-A Marina Drive, has been arrested on a charge of misappropriation of construction funds, a second-degree felony. Oberhofer was ...