April Real Estate Report 2023

Manatee County’s Median Home Price Surpasses Previous Record SARASOTA, Fla. (May 18, 2023) – The housing market in Sarasota and Manatee counties reported year-over-year increases in the median sale price for both property types, with…

Schools To Start Later

 School officials will soon be gearing up to push back start times for many high schools under a new law that mandates changes to the beginning of the school day — but some lawmakers and…

Sarasota High Pedestrian/Bicycle Accidents

The Sarasota Police Department has completed its High Visibility Enforcement program to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety.  The City of Sarasota ranks in the top 25 cities in the state of Florida for traffic crashes…

Sarasota Insurance Agent Defrauds local Investors.

United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that today, following a six-week trial, a jury has returned guilty verdicts on nine counts of the superseding indictment charging Phillip Roy Wasserman (66, Sarasota) with conspiracy to…

Celery Fields to Get Re-Wilded

Gulf Coast Community Foundation awards $75,000 to Sarasota Audubon for Re-Wilding the Quad Parcels The Sarasota Audubon Society recently received a $75,000 grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation in support of their joint project with…

2023 Hurricane Predictions

WGCU | By AccuWeather and other sources The 2023 hurricane season could be almost a carbon copy of 2022 with a similar number of storms, the long-range forecasters at AccuWeather said. The company's current projections indicate…

100 Sq. Miles of Red Tide

  Manatee County rakes 7,000 pounds of dead fish in two weeks Currently, there is roughly 100 square miles of Florida’s Gulf Coast waters are painted with red tide. The harmful algal bloom, , is…