A future ferry landing in Anna Maria may be coming into focus. Mayor Mark Short reported his recent conversations with ...

Soccer takes center pitch, golfers celebrate Oktoberfest - Read this weeks Sprts News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

The Anna Maria Post Office is back in action. Interim postmaster Kristen Gray told The Islander Oct. 7 that the office’s 101B ...

Onlookers gather Oct. 8 outside Island Grub Restaurant as a 1920 cottage that had been at 106 Willow Ave. rolls along on Pine ...

October, the Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage was hurrying to put the finishing touches on grant-funded ...

Bradenton Beach is courting new legal counsel. City commissioners on Oct. 7 interviewed attorneys Erica Augello and Robert ...

The ownership of the Luana Isles canals and yacht basin in Anna Maria will be determined in court. City attorney Becky Vose ...

A crowd fills Bridge Street in front of the Drift-In AMI during the Sundown Get Down “Rock the Block” festival Oct. 11 in Bradenton Beach. The Bridge Street Merchants Association event featured live ...

Autumn fishing heats as air/water temperatures cool down - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Manatee County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Russell Schnering, a former marine and the supervisor of mCSO’s marine unit, steers a boat Oct. 9 into the water from the Coquina Beach South Boat ramp. Schnering ...

The recreational and commercial stone crab harvest season starts Oct. 15 and will remain open through May 1, closing May 2. The minimum claw size limit is ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the week ending Oct. 12 reported the red tide organism, Karenia brevis, at background concentrations in Manatee County. For more information, go ...