In the face of spiraling unfunded liability costs, Manager Bullock proposes to freeze all employee pensions and convert to defined contribution model.

Sarasota’s landmark statue that was hit by a car last week, ‘Unconditional Surrender’ was placed on two semi-trucks and hauled away this week

Mayor Brown asks for residents’ to allow the plantings and vegetative buffer to be completely installed before residents’ jump to conclusions.

Sarasota native Nik Wallenda has announced he will walk across Niagra Falls on a tightrope on June 15. The walk will be 1,800 feet along a two-inch steel cable and will take 30-40 minutes. In February 2010, Wallenda did a 600-foot walk across a tightrope between the Ritz Carlton and the Watergate Condominiums in downtown Sarasota.

With the new Longboat Pass inlet management plan, Longboat Key, Manatee County and the West Coast Inlet Navigation District are all now facing opposition from Siesta Key residents about the plan to manage erosion of Beer Can Island and slow the drift of Longboat Pass.

Florida Studio Theatre’s staff and supporters gathered April 16 to unveil the cornerstone on the Hegner Theatre Wing, part of the New Gompertz Theatre capital improvement campaign that includes renovating the 6,000-square-foot Gompertz Theatre and constructing an 18,000-square-foot addition with two new theatre spaces. Artistic Director Richard Hopkins, Associate Director Kate Alexander, Managing Director Rebecca [...]

The Longbeach Village we know today has a long and storied history that brings to light the Old Florida way of life.

The French spray-paint artist known as MTO who painted the “Fast Life” mural on the building owned by Scott Gerber and his ‘Tube Dude’ business, has now painted another mural on the Sarasota Architectural Salvage building.

Looking to change the view during your workout on the treadmill or elliptical trainer? If you’re a resident of one of the 132 condominiums at The Islander Club, you only need to head to the gulf front fitness center with views to the Gulf of Mexico through the floor to ceiling windows.

During the 1970s Longboat Key’s hottest venue was the Far Horizons, a resort hotel with some of its suites as little villas on stilts actually in the Gulf. Its restaurant was the “talk of the town” and of the chef was Harry, now of Harry’s Continental Kitchen. After it closed down, the hotel site was the subject of a prolonged lawsuit between the town of Longboat Key and Dr. Murf Klauber.