Fresh with victory in the successful objection in January to 24 unsecured claims, lawyers for bankrupt GSR Development LLC last week filed 17 more objections to unsecured claims totaling more than $4 ...

Anna Maria's planning and zoning board agreed to recommend to the city commission elimination of the city's medium-density residential category of zoning in the proposed future land use element of the ...

John “Redbeard” Swager and Patti Lamoreux held the ceremonial pistol, and together they fired into the air. It sounded like the “pop” of a firecracker. “That was Jim, by the way,” announced Swager, ...

Both candidates for the Manatee County Commission seat for District 7, which includes Anna Maria Island, have the financial backing of a number of significant business leaders and elected officials.

More than 20 businesses will participant in the first annual Anna Maria Island Wedding Festival. The event, coordinated by the Anna Maria Island Wedding Network in cooperation with the Anna Maria ...

St. Bernard Roman Catholic Church is celebrating 50 years on Anna Maria Island, with a parishioners’ festival planned for the weekend. The Very Rev. Msgr. Edward Moretti, pastor of Sts. Peter And Paul ...

Holmes Beach Commissioner Al Robinson wrote an 11th-hour letter to the West Manatee Fire Rescue District commission expressing displeasure with a plan to spend $1.6 million to purchase and renovate a ...

Unsecured creditors of bankrupt GSR Development LLC might be feeling a bit more "unsecure" these days about ever collecting anything near the $8 million they're owed by the failed Island real estate ...

As we settle into February, you can expect the fishing around Anna Maria Island to settle into its wintertime pattern. With stronger colder fronts moving in and cooler water temperatures, we should ...

Jacob Phillips, left, Cliff Winter, Scott Phillips, Chuck Winter, center Dan Dauer and Bob Hoffman are pictured with their catch of nice-sized red grouper and a reef shark. The party was fishing ...

Having had the opportunity - some would say the penalty - of covering public meetings in all three Island cities, I've been asked on occasion by various Island elected officials to compare how each ...

Ed Morris of Kentucky with a nice 32-inch redfish he caught on a recent charter with Mark Howard of Sumotime Fishing Charters. Howard said they used big greenbacks netted early in the morning for bait ...