The 2025 stone crab season is off to a sluggish start for the working waterfront of Cortez, where crabbers and market owners ...

People stroll Pine Avenue in Anna Maria during Bayfest, held Oct. 18 and presented by the Anna Maria Island Chamber of Commerce. The annual event featured musical entertainment, food and beverage ...

Cortez’s Florida Maritime Museum remains far from reopening, and Manatee County officials acknowledge that restoration ...

With sea turtle nesting winding down across the state, the  Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released its ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short emailed The Islander Oct. 17, saying there was “not much new news this week.” Short was in ...

Community members soon may be able to help test for PFAs in the Gulf and bay waters and in marine life. Holmes Beach Clean ...

Cool weather settles in, migratory fishing action heats up - Read this weeks Fishing News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Competition continues at center pitch, KRC links and AM pits - Read this weeks Sprts News from Anna Maria Island, Florida ...

Anna Maria Island’s lone election this November will feature four candidates campaigning for three city commission seats in ...

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

A Cortez man was cleared of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a judge ruled that he acted in lawful self-defense under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law. The case involving Kevin Armstrong, ...