MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County commissioners recently approved an investment of $24 million into the county’s parks. Recently, mornings have been really busy for crews working at Manatee County ...

Plantation Oaks is normally a quiet District 5 neighborhood until a mariachi band starts playing or a girls flag football team blares what neighbors call “vulgar music.” A large house on a sprawling ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Manatee County budget talks started this week, officials stressed how proposed changes to property taxes would drastically cut ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — While some school districts in the Tampa Bay area are dealing with declining enrollment and closing some schools, Manatee County is seeing the opposite. School district leaders ...

These gentle giants forage in shallow waters, primarily along the coast of Florida, and often have fatal encounters with boats. What can be done to help them? By Johnny Diaz Reporting from Miami In ...

Today marks a new chapter for the Manatee County restaurant scene thanks to its latest opening. A new restaurant, called simply Extinctiōn, specializes in creative preparations of Florida's most ...

An injured mother manatee and her calf were rescued this week from a river in Florida and taken to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation, officials said. Drone pilots provided the rescuers with an ...

COVERING ORANGE COUNTY. LIVE IN ORLANDO BOB HAZEN WESH TWO NEWS. DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW ALL IS QUIET IN MELBOURNE BEACH AFTER A DRAMATIC RESCUE RIGHT UNDER THAT STORM DRAIN, CREWS SAVED A MANATEE STUCK ...

A manatee that got stuck in a Florida storm drain while seeking warmer waters is now on the mend at SeaWorld Orlando after a large effort to rescue it. Multiple fire rescue units and officials from ...

Officials said, “This is a perfect example of how important continuous training and education opportunities are" Brevard County Fire Rescue/Facebook (2) Florida emergency crews rescued a manatee ...