Cobia are starting to make their fall migration right now, with reports of three or four catches being caught this week. Inshore action for snook and redfish remains great, with limit-catches of reds ...

Understating the obvious for Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key, the Coalition of Barrier Island Elected Officials at its March 21 meeting held a discussion on traffic problems confronting the four ...

Complete with five splendid homes, boutique, quilt raffle, and two shuttle buses to ease parking, the 13th annual Anna Maria Island Tour of Homes will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 18. The ...

A host of projects on Anna Maria Island could receive funding through the federal stimulus windfall. President Barack Obama has approved the Congressional stimulus package of $787 billion. Exactly how ...

The roof of this two-story apartment building in Town & Country Perico was destroyed as fire sparked by a lightning strike spread across the roof and through the attic while more than a dozen ...

The St. Joe Company — owners of the SevenShores condominium project on Perico Island — announced last week they would lay off about 80 percent of its workforce due to a stalled housing market in ...

Current red tide conditions around the state of Florida are summarized, and sampling results are mapped. Reports are updated on Friday afternoon. Current and past regional status reports are also ...

The nagging red tide outbreak that has plagued Southwest Florida for months flared up again over the weekend. Dead fish and the accompanying smell as well as respiratory complaints were persistent ...

Toni Lyon of Holmes Beach caught this 130-plus tarpon while fishing on vacation in Costa Rica in May. Little man, big fish Zack Guerin, 12, of Anna Maria, hooked up tarpon Memorial Day weekend while ...

Visitors to Anna Maria Island arriving this week without a reservation may have to scramble to find lodging. Only a few Island accommodation owners and managers surveyed last week reported any ...

The Florida Department of Transportation last week in a letter to the Manatee County Commission stood by an earlier claim (The islander, May 9) that there is no need to reduce the speed limit on the ...

NextG wireless communications company indicated last week that its equipment is similar to a small panel attached to an existing utility pole and looks nothing like the cell tower at Smith Realtors on ...