Nate Davis of Plant City caught this 32-inch-long redfish while fishing with Capt. Tom Chaya aboard the Dolphin Dreams. Capt. Waldo Pardue, of Holmes Beach, caught this wahoo while on a fishing trip ...

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 ...

Children aboard the Lucky Duck entry in the DeSoto Bottle Boat Regatta ready for the start of their race. islander Photos: Lisa Neff Everyone have fun. Everyone be safe. No one drink the water. Such ...

John “Redbeard” Swager and Patti Lamoreux held the ceremonial pistol, and together they fired into the air. It sounded like the “pop” of a firecracker. “That was Jim, by the way,” announced Swager, ...

Unsecured creditors of bankrupt GSR Development LLC might be feeling a bit more "unsecure" these days about ever collecting anything near the $8 million they're owed by the failed Island real estate ...

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 ...

Nicholas LaFountain, 6, leads a game of tag on Coquina Beach on Easter weekend. The beach weekend brought rain and sun, crowds and celebration, as well as law enforcement on foot, in cruisers and on ...

Cortez Trailer Park residents and citizens concerned about a possible sale packed the regular monthly meeting of the Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage, where the residents of Cortez lent a ...

Bathers and beachgoers using the Palma Sola Causeway beaches should be advised there could be a health problem in the water. The Manatee County Health Department issued an advisory last week for the ...

Sex may sell on Madison Avenue and there’s “Sex and the City,” a popular rerun on TV, but sex in Holmes Beach apparently doesn’t sell very well. The house at 5601 Flotilla Drive that was the scene of ...

The seven staff members of Acute Care in Anna Maria arrested Feb. 23 on state charges of Medicaid fraud will be arraigned at 9 a.m. on March 30 in the Manatee County Circuit Court. Arrested were Acute ...

Officer Pete Lannon's family and friends celebrated his life with a funeral Mass at Ss. Peter and Paul the Apostles Church and burial at his final resting place, Manasota Memorial Park - as chronicled ...