Red tide blooming near Florida Gulf coast beaches has drifted closer to Sarasota County over the past week, but beach impacts are limited.

Red tide is caused by a harmful algae bloom. It can bring respiratory problems and even fish kills in high concentrations.

Green space vs. gray space. Birds vs. builders. It’s a tale as old as time in the Sunshine State, the plot of every Carl ...

Local health departments advised people to stay away from more than a dozen beaches in Southwest Florida. Respiratory ...

Swordfish Grill, located on the north end of Sarasota Bay in the historic commercial fishing village of Cortez near Anna Maria Island ... 1905 and is recognized as Florida’s oldest restaurant ...

Tom Llamas Reporting from Sarasota ... are near or at the flood stage will be shown on the map. Select a gauge on the map for more details. Martin County, which is north of Palm Beach on ...

Recent water samples show red tide off the coast of Southwest Florida, with one spot on Sanibel Island reporting high levels.

With so many things to do in Sarasota ... stretch of Florida. Florida is a long state, and you don’t realize how wide it is in places until you drive across it. If you look at a map, just ...

“Everything is open in Englewood, the mainland is back to normal, the barrier island is getting there,” added Doug Izzo, executive director of the Englewood Florida Chamber of Commerc ...

“When you have an unstable climate like we have now, extreme events of all kinds happen,” said Bob Bunting, CEO and chairman of the Climate Adaptation Center, a non-profit in Sarasot ...