Manatee County commissioners greenlit the purchase with $420,000 from the county’s voter-approved conservation fund. Conservationists are celebrating the protection of 13 acres of land along the ...

TerraNova sued two Myakka residents over social posts alleging wetlands harm. Plaintiffs seek at least $50,000 and demand retractions, citing defamatory claims. Leigh raised community funds, vows to ...

Myakka City residents oppose rezoning near the river, citing rural lifestyle loss. Senate Bill 180 limits buffer protections; county explores enhancing enforcement. Federal bill seeks to extend 'Wild ...

Residents and officials who oversee the Myakka River are worried about the impacts of development inching closer to one of the region's final frontiers. Some Myakka City residents are worried about ...

When a new spot opens in town, we’re eager to check it out, let you know our initial impressions, share photos and dish about menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review ...

In 1975, Sarasota County commissioners lobbied to have the Myakka added to the National Wild and Scenic River System. This designation was created by Congress in 1968 to preserve “certain rivers with ...

The laurel dace lives only in a few streams in southeastern Tennessee and faced extinction as a 2024 drought dried up its habitat. Conservation biologists conducted an emergency rescue, and today two ...

Our Gulf beaches are world famous, but Sarasota has another great body of water—the Myakka, celebrating its 40th anniversary as Florida’s only “Wild and Scenic River.” It was daybreak when we slipped ...

Restaurateur Bernie Kantak likes to take cues from the physical space when creating a restaurant. It’s something he’s done with his other Valley concepts, Citizen Public House, Beginner’s Luck and The ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County rancher Jim Strickland says Hurricane Milton brought 6 to 8-foot waves to his property, which is more than 20 miles from the Gulf. After Hurricane Milton, 600 ...

That’s one big minnow. An angler from Lexington, Virginia, reeled in a 3-pound, 13.9-ounce fallfish — the largest native minnow in the eastern United States — earlier this spring. The fish measured 19 ...