Manatee County utility crews unearthed a piece of history, dating back thousands of years, while digging a trench for a ...

The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US's third president and founding father Thomas Jefferson in 1797.

The future of Mixon Fruit Farms will be decided by Manatee County commissioners on July 29 when they vote to either purchase the property or pass. If commissioners pass, Janet Mixon said she and her ...

Florida schools are graded by the Florida Department of Education on a scale of A-F. In the 2024 School District of Manatee County school grades, district schools received 24 As, 12 Bs, 24 Cs and 4 Ds ...

Church in Manatee County has been named to the annual "11 to Save" program highlighting historic landmarks in Florida worth preserving. The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation created the 11 to ...

Eleven people in Florida, including one in Manatee County, have contracted Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" ...

To find the true culprit, Tomasko's team is deploying DNA-based tracking methods across four locations five times this summer ...

Officials in Manatee County, Florida, were able to identify the patient zero in a recent outbreak of the coronavirus that swept through a government building and left two employees dead and ...

Manatee County leaders are trying to roll back changes that let local development sprawl farther east over the last several years. At a recent Land Use Meeting, commissioners voted to undo a 2021 ...

Manatee County is required by the Florida Constitution to redistrict based on the decennial census, with districts divided as equal in population as practicable.