Prisons and jails are difficult to evacuate when wildfires or storms approach. Many of these facilities lack evacuation plans ...

The cold beer and the customers were flowing, as Duffy's Tavern in Holmes Beach reopened on Friday after two months.

Florida deputies made two significant rescues last week— a trapped manatee and a woman experiencing a medical emergency in ...

Sea cow, not pond cow. A juvenile manatee was rescued from a small pond in Florida — a mile and a half from open water — ...

BRADENTON, Fla. - A kickoff to the holiday season takes on a new meaning for the Salvation Army of Manatee County. They ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — An 18-year-old Sarasota motorcyclist was killed in a Manatee County crash on Sunday after the bike slammed into the side of a truck, authorities said. The motorcyclist was ...

A 2-year-old manatee stranded in a small Florida pond far from open water was rescued last week after the storm surge from ...

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit provided aerial assistance to other agencies in two rescues during the past week, one of an injured woman and one of a trapped manatee.

The Manatee County Commission approved a developer’s request to release conservation easements for about 10 acres of wetland buffers around Cooper Creek in the University Park area. Cooper Creek is a ...

BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) — A pedestrian was killed after troopers said he was struck by three vehicles on a Manatee County highway on Sunday evening. At 6:54 p.m. the Florida Highway Patrol ...

MYAKKA CITY — Manatee County rancher Jim Strickland, a longtime champion of agricultural conservation, will be inducted into the Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame during the 2025 Florida State ...

TAMPA, Fla. (CBS12) — A manatee was rescued after becoming trapped in a small Florida pond. The Florida Fish Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced on November 7, that theClearwater ...