How a Monster El Niño Half a World Away Gave Longboat and Sarasota Two Years of Peace
—The Storms That Never Came...
Two years after Helene and Milton, the barrier islands have been handed the quietest hurricane season of the satellite...
Sarasota Said Too Tall, Shore’s Team Said Change the Rule
The busy season is arriving on a Circle that survived two hurricanes and rebuilt itself under the old rules. Against that backdrop, one application...
Longboat Library Clears Town Commission With a February Groundbreaking in Sight
—After two decades of false starts, a collapsed college partnership, two hurricanes and a $3.5 million fundraising drive, the Longboat Key library may finally...
Sarasota Residents Fight Over Flock Cameras as City Hall Reaches for a PR Plan
One of the city's own officers sits charged with running a single license plate 358 times. The governor has ordered the cameras off state...
Hart’s Landing: How Sarasota’s 90-Year-Old Bait Shop Got Lost in FEMA’s Red Tape
The bait shop is gone, the fishing pier is closed and the park under the Ringling Bridge sits behind chain link. City Hall says...