Jordan-Branded Club Opens Its Doors, and...

Six weeks after pulling its private club application, 1000...

Sarasota Files Plans to Bring Back...

Plans filed with City Hall show a hurricane-hardened bait...

How Tennis Players From Wimbledon to...

On Longboat Key, the alibi is filed before the...

The Murals Nobody Owned: Sarasota Moves...

For $4,000, the city would adopt Tim Jaeger's 2020...

Water Main Haulers Leave GMD Sidewalk...

Bay Harbour board member says loaders hauling soil and...

Longboat Key Historical Society Gets a...

Commission turns down Michael Drake's bid for five years,...

Major Headlines

The Murals Nobody Owned: Sarasota Moves to Claim Lido’s Wade-In and Casino Paintings

For $4,000, the city would adopt Tim Jaeger's 2020...

Water Main Haulers Leave GMD Sidewalk Cracked

Bay Harbour board member says loaders hauling soil and...

Longboat Key Historical Society Gets a Lease and a Deadline

Commission turns down Michael Drake's bid for five years,...

Longboat Commission Embraces Flock as Chief Vows to Get Cameras “Back in the Ground”

Longboat Key's eight license plate readers are off, in...

Real Estate

The Sporting Life

How Tennis Players From Wimbledon to Longboat Key Lose the Match Before It Starts

On Longboat Key, the alibi is filed before the...

Save Our Seabirds Opens Five New Aviaries

After three hard years, two hurricanes and a supply...

Thrilla on the Key: Mayor Williams and Mark Walsh go to sudden death as OPL Charities raises $525,000

The Walsh family's annual OPL Charities Golf Tournament brought...

Health & Science

Why One Misstep Late in Life Can Change Everything

A medical feature for Longboat Key, Lido Key, St....

Inside Sarasota Memorial’s High-Stakes Bet on the Oldest, Richest Coast in America

The taxpayer-owned hospital is opening cancer pavilions, floating bonds...

The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared

When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted...

How cell recycling benefits you

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com There’s great power in biological cell recycling. ...

Peripheral neuropathy: Challenges and remedies

Dr. Kitt Chojnicki-Hill Guest Columnist news@lbknews.com We will soon be heading into...

A Bridge Too Far, A Span Too High: FDOT’s Towering Disregard for Longboat Key

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com It was really the classical Greeks...

Are prescription drugs truly safe?

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com Are prescription drugs truly safe? Depends on how...

Why One Misstep Late in Life Can Change Everything

A medical feature for Longboat Key, Lido Key, St....

How to rest on vacation

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com When was the last time you took...

How Tennis Players From Wimbledon to Longboat Key Lose the Match Before It Starts

On Longboat Key, the alibi is filed before the...

Everything I Love in Tennis Is Retired, Terrified, or Nursing a Mysterious Wrist

—For most of my childhood I was certain that...

Sarasota Wordle 5

Sarasota Wordle 5: Sarasota's daily five-letter challenge. A new word every day.

Opinion

Ozzy Osbourne, Your Fitbit and the Great Longboat Key Flock Camera Shuffle

Our police love the Flock cameras, and they should....

How America Medicated, Outsourced and Video-Gamed the Struggle Out of Being Human

Priya Parker says healthy relationships need a good fight....

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Letters

Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of October 30, 2026

The Planning Board's Return to In-Person Reporting To: Sarasota City...

Longboat Letters to the Editor week of October 30, 2026

Trading the Estuary for the Mouse: SBEP Staff Update To:...

Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of October 23, 2026

Thanks for Trying To: Sequoia Felton Thank you. I appreciate you...

On Patrol

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of October 16, 2026

—Oct. 10 —Happy landing —5:01 p.m. Officer Albert Miano and...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of October 9, 2026

—Thursday, Oct. 1 —What a drag —7:15 a.m. —Officer Dallas...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of October 2, 2026

Friday, Sept. 25 —Tight squeeze —9:44 a.m. —Officer Andrew Van Dyke...

Wine & Dine

Jordan-Branded Club Opens Its Doors, and Its Reservation Book, While City Approval Sits on the Bench

Six weeks after pulling its private club application, 1000...

Scarier Than a Millage Rate: Longboat Town Hall Dresses Up for Halloween

Most weeks, the Longboat Key Town Commission chambers serve...

What the Columbia’s Ulele Teaches Barrier Islands About Weathering a Storm

Two years after Helene pushed a wall of water...

Pouring on Bud Light Comic Relief

—An article in the Food and Wine section of...

Exploring the History, Wine, and Unexpected Warmth of the Biltmore

It does not have rides or waterslides or cartoon...

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Ozzy Osbourne, Your Fitbit and the Great Longboat Key Flock Camera Shuffle

Our police love the Flock cameras, and they should....

Commission Overturns Planning Board, Approves Midtown Plaza Hotel 3-2

Six weeks after the Planning Board killed it, a...

Dead Winn-Dixie Hotel Gets a Second Life as City Commission Takes Up Midtown Plaza Appeal

Five weeks after Arlington Park sank the Winn-Dixie redevelopment,...

Exploring the History, Wine, and Unexpected Warmth of the Biltmore

It does not have rides or waterslides or cartoon...

All Aboard the Great Smoky Mountains

The evening before our steam train excursion we had...

On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of October 23, 2026

Friday, Oct. 16 Flat-out stuck 3:44 p.m. Officer Simon Maple was on...

Longboat Wordle 5

Longboat Wordle 5: Five letters, six guesses, a new island word every day. Play now

How cell recycling benefits you

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com There’s great power in biological cell recycling. ...

Longboat Wordle 7

Longboat Wordle 7: The big board — seven letters, eight guesses, fresh at midnight.

A Different Take on White Wines

S.W. and Rich Hermansen Guest Writers wine@lbknews.com Those of us who have...

Longboat Kiwanis Welcome Return of Lawn Party

S.W AND RICH HERMANSEN Staff Writers wine@lbknews.com The somber fall of 2024...

New York vs. Boston: The Empire Strikes Out

In which a man raised on Phil Rizzuto and...

Etch-a-Sketch Empire: The True Cost of an Aimless War, from Hormuz to Longboat Key

—Here on the barrier islands, the illusion of insulation...

Takeaways from the Trump-Harris debate

GREGORY RUSOVICH Guest Writer rusovich@lbknews.com There were several takeaways from the Trump-Harris...

Fear and Looting on the Hurricane Trail

STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com It was the best of times,...

On Patrol

In the News

Wine and Dine

Jordan-Branded Club Opens Its Doors, and Its Reservation Book, While City Approval Sits on the Bench

Six weeks after pulling its private club application, 1000...

Scarier Than a Millage Rate: Longboat Town Hall Dresses Up for Halloween

Most weeks, the Longboat Key Town Commission chambers serve...

What the Columbia’s Ulele Teaches Barrier Islands About Weathering a Storm

Two years after Helene pushed a wall of water...

Pouring on Bud Light Comic Relief

—An article in the Food and Wine section of...

Health

Why One Misstep Late in Life Can Change Everything

A medical feature for Longboat Key, Lido Key, St....

Inside Sarasota Memorial’s High-Stakes Bet on the Oldest, Richest Coast in America

The taxpayer-owned hospital is opening cancer pavilions, floating bonds...

The Great Sarasota Meltdown: One Out of Three of My Tennis Partners Has Disappeared

When the snowbirds came down this season, I conducted...

How cell recycling benefits you

MATTHEW EDLUND Guest Writer news@lbknews.com There’s great power in biological cell recycling. ...

Jordan-Branded Club Opens Its Doors, and Its Reservation Book, While City Approval Sits on the Bench

Six weeks after pulling its private club application, 1000 North Sarasota told members it would open at the end of October, will let the public...