Operation Spring into Safety event is set to take place on Saturday, Feb. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at State College of ...

A Manatee County judge denied bond for Ashley Benefield as the former professional ballerina appeals her manslaughter conviction in the 2020 shooting death of her estranged husband. For those who knew ...

The county must also consider repairing the current fluoridation system. Imagine the surprise of Manatee County commissioners beginning a discussion on ending fluoridation and learning from staff that ...

Manatee County will consider new regulations for short-term vacation rentals within the next year, and could soon require that property owners who operate Air B&B rentals or similar accommodations ...

A missing person alert has been issued for 78-year-old Florida woman with memory loss. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said that Lucilia Leccima was last seen at her home on Aloha Drive around 1 a ...

Manatee County is preparing to join several other Florida communities that have decided to stop adding fluoride to their drinking water supply since Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo issue ...

A Black jail inmate who was slammed into bunkbeds, thrown facedown and then dragged backward across the concrete floor by a rope clipped to his handcuffed wrists is suing a Washington state ...

Manatee County, like several Florida communities in recent months, plans to discuss whether to discontinue adding fluoride to its water supply. County commissioners placed the topic on the agenda for ...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WWSB) - On Friday night, deputies from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit conducted a DUI Saturation Patrol. During the heightened patrol, deputies made seven DUI ...

Evacuation orders and warnings were issued to more than 31,000 people in the vicinity of two new wildfires north of Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los ...

A Manatee County official is calling for the removal of fluoride from the county’s drinking water following a renewed national debate about whether it poses health risks. In a controversial ...

Commissioner Bob McCann made it clear during his campaign for a District 5 seat on the Manatee County Commission that he would be representing those who wanted to slow development. “If there’s ...