BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) — A new ordinance aims at regulating pet stores and breeders across Manatee County. Enacted in October 2024, Ordinance 24-92 promotes responsible breeding practices to ensure ...

A new batch of commissioners campaigned on slowing growth that some residents feel is happening too fast, especially in East ...

Manatee County is growing at a record pace. Commissioners are focused on bringing back wetland protections cut in 2023.

Soft strains of processional music drifted through Manatee County’s historic courtyard as fourteen couples walked in a column to line up in front of a white gazebo. Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit ...

For decades, Walt Disney World has cared for thousands of fish and marine mammals to help with conservation and research. As ...

As temperatures drop, Florida’s manatees face dangerous conditions with some developing cold stress, a potentially deadly ...

Zach Naegele, 24, is recovering after being rushed to the hospital following the accident in Palmetto, Florida on Feb. 7 ...

Stacy Freeman had trouble accepting the fact she was named as a finalist for the School District of Manatee County 2025 ...

The district attorney in Ontario County, N.Y., called the circumstances surrounding the death “beyond depraved.” By Sopan Deb H. Carl McCall, whose 2002 primary race with Andrew M.

At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections. By Jim Tankersley and Andrew E. Kramer After years of ...