In 1955, 67-year-old Emma Gatewood told her children she was going on a walk. She didn’t tell them she was setting out on the Appalachian Trail with the intention of hiking the entire 2,168 miles from ...

Bone-chilling temperatures may be waning, but the struggles faced by people experiencing homelessness won’t melt away with them.

Police departments across Florida and the US used Valentine's Day to make tongue-in-cheek (and yet totally serious) offers.

GoFundMe accounts have been established to help the victims in the tragic mass shooting that connected Fort Lauderdale to ...

The student was ground transported and has since been released from the hospital, North Port Police officials shared. The ...

Roundup of Manatee, Sarasota high school sports results including soccer, baseball, basketball, lacrosse for Feb. 9-14, 2026.

A popular national restaurant chain serving the ‘Greatest Sandwich in America’ opens a new location in Sarasota.

Sarasota investigators say new evidence shows 51-year-old Russell Kot killed two people, then stayed inside the home in Sarasota waiting for the homeowners to return before fatally shooting them.

Sarasota's Greg Steube filed legislation to eliminate the H-1B visa program, which many tech companies use to recruit specialized foreign labor.

Will a $2 Powerball ticket make you a multimillionaire on Valentine’s Day? Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, claimed $2.04 billion on the holiday.

The day after five people were found dead in a gated community in Sarasota, residents tried to come to grips with the tragedy ...

A Tony-winning musical, the U.S. premiere of an Emmy winner's play, a poetry festival, and more in this week's top arts ...