The giant ground sloth was given its scientific name Megalonyx jeffersonii by the US’s third president and founding father ...

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

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 ...

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

A new report identified fecal contamination issues at Palma Sola that made the beach potentially unsafe for swimming multiple ...

On Monday, July 21, the Manatee Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller said they are currently holding $64,914.35 in unclaimed funds, including 818 checks for jury duty, court fee refunds, vendor ...

Sarasota and Manatee have produced nine FHSAA state championship teams. Now you can vote for the team you think is the ...

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

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.