President Biden calls Sarasota Mayor Liz Alpert with offer of assistance prior to landfall, but many breathed a sigh of ...

Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, as a major hurricane on Wednesday evening, October 9. High winds, heavy rain, ...

Hurricane Milton has weakened slightly since making landfall and is now a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 110 ...

With a slight shift to the south, storm surge was mostly concentrated south of Tampa Bay, overwhelming Sarasota and Fort Myers.

The hardest-hit areas in Florida were on the state's Gulf Coast, where Milton made landfall. Hundreds of thousands of people ...

Hurricane Milton made landfall in Sarasota County as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday night and exited as a Category 1 storm ...

Sign up to get updates about current storms and weather events by location Conditions across Lee County quickly deteriorated, leaving nearly 180,000 without power and communities inundated ...

Wesley Wilcox, the Marion County supervisor of elections, said his office picked up roughly 3,000 mail ballots from the post office Wednesday morning. Those ballots will be counted and stored with the ...

Online reports said the storm surge set records in Tampa Bay, and flooding was occurring on Sarasota County's barrier islands and downtown Sarasota ... to avoid south Siesta Key as water floods ...

Hurricane Helene, expected to be a Category 4, has sent rain, wind and storm surge into Sarasota and Manatee counties.