Manatee County Public Safety and EMS, in coordination with the Bradenton Fire Department and other regional partners, are ...

The Manatee County Commission resumes following its recess this week with two meetings scheduled, a regular meeting on ...

An interesting point in discussing the Democratic primary election for chief financial officer (CFO), one of the most powerful positions in Florida government, is that there almost wasn’t one. For ...

Oregonians won’t vote in November on whether to ban hunting, fishing, livestock farming and animal research after backers of a widely criticized initiative failed to gather enough valid signatures to ...

Dr. Sharon Jefferson is a candidate for the Manatee County School Board in District 2. A 27-year veteran educator in the ...

Under the language approved, when a student enrolls in a postsecondary institution, his or her school district must transfer disciplinary records for the student to the college. Those records include ...

It wasn’t billed as a takeover. The nonprofit hospice where Washington state nurse Milli Palmer has worked for nearly two decades announced in October 2024 that it was entering a “joint … ...

In his dystopian novel “1984,” George Orwell warned that a dictator would create a surveillance state masked as something beneficial. The hallmark of the evil regime was its slogan: “Big … ...

The number of Florida residents who receive federal food assistance dropped by 23% during the past year, state data published this month show. There were 2,285,099 residents enrolled in the … ...

Most people don’t pay much attention to the county’s Comprehensive Plan. It’s a thick document filled with maps, policies, and what look like harmless little dotted lines. But those dotted … ...

The Florida Democratic Party has voted to formally oppose Amendment 3, the measure designed to expand the homestead exemption for non-school property taxes and set the state on a path towards … ...