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 ...

Dr. Ernest Estevez is the keeper of all lore nautical in our part of the world. For more than three decades he has practiced his craft at Mote Marine Laboratory, publishing scores of technical papers ...

While Anna Maria is saving about $50,000 a year by outsourcing its building official position and paying for just part-time help, it’s not really getting the maximum level of service, current building ...

Changes may be in store for the Bradenton Beach Marina. Owner Allan Bazzy highlighted renovation plans for the marina on Church Street, just south of the Cortez Bridge on Anna Maria Sound, at a ...

Water-taxi service to Anna Maria Island isn’t dead in the water, but only stalled a bit, according to a report offered to Island transportation planners last week. Bradenton Beach project/program ...

Hannah Crowe, left, former student at Anna Maria Elementary School, and mom Debbie of Holmes Beach, were intent on preserving a "chunk" of AME and so they joined workers Ron Bell, lower left, and ...

Mullet fishers congregated off Bean Point in the mouth of Tampa Bay last week for a mullet catch. The fish, prized in Europe and Asia for its roe, gather in large schools in late fall and early winter ...

Mike and Lizzie Thrasher, residents of Anna Maria and the United Kingdom, are no longer partners in Pine Avenue Restoration LLC and its Pine Avenue projects. In the parting of ways, the Thrashers ...

The basic construction part of the Cortez Road project is finished and work has been suspended until May 1. As the Florida Department of Transportation promised the historic fishing village, the job ...

The Florida Department of Transportation will help fund the cost of maintaining an additional emergency medical services team on Anna Maria Island during the upcoming 45-day Anna Maria Island Bridge ...

Anna Maria Mayor Mark Short, in an April 11 email to The Islander, said the city entered an agreement with HR Direct for ...

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is making tracks on the beach. The team began surveying the beaches April 15 to monitor for sea ...