This classic café/diner offers seven days of breakfast and lunch and lots of friendly service. If you’re in the mood for something really special, try the crab eggs Benedict or the Longboat Key omelet ...

Business organizations and community leaders are urging lawmakers to save USF-SM instead of handing the campus to New College ...

In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis tried to transfer two major institutions—the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (USF-SM) and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art—to New College of Florida to ...

In 1938, Verman Kimbrough, the mayor of Sarasota, announced that city officials had figured out how to harness the marvels of ...

This is a return to my first connections to nature,” Ward says. “This is where the wildlife corridor and the Gulf meet.” ...

This article is part of the series In Their Own Words, proudly presented by Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

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After Ray’s unexpected death, Sarasota’s Laughing Buddha stands as a reminder of the Central Cocoanut neighbor who gave the ...

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) has documented the first local sea turtle ...