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SARASOTA COUNTY — Members of Sarasota County’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Environmentally Sensitive Lands Oversight Committee received a brief update of the progress of the Warm Mineral Springs Day Spa and the potential acquisition of Little ...

NORTH PORT — City Commissioner Cheryl Cook recently paid a $500 fine to the Florida Elections Commission for violating four election laws while running her campaign last year.
According to Elections Commission records, Cook was found in violation of laws ...

At their Thursday meeting in Pensacola, the seven-member Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously to ban the Boca Grande tarpon jig. The device, which differs from traditional fishing jigs by having the weight suspended at the b...

MURDOCK — After months of heated debate and wrangling over whether to approve a revised contract with the Animal Welfare League of Charlotte County, it appeared the issue largely had been put to rest.
In July, commissioners voted unanimously to approve a ...

SARASOTA COUNTY — Members of Sarasota County’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Environmentally Sensitive Lands Oversight Committee received a brief update of the progress of the Warm Mineral Springs Day Spa and the potential acquisition of Little ...

NORTH PORT — Plans for a three-story apartment complex, restaurant, gas station and convenience store along Toledo Blade Boulevard proposed by Frank Menke III have expired, prompting the Sarasota developer to begin the process all over again.
On Thursday...

NORTH PORT — City Commissioner Cheryl Cook recently paid a $500 fine to the Florida Elections Commission for violating four election laws while running her campaign last year.
According to Elections Commission records, Cook was found in violation of laws...

Sheriff Bill Prummell would like to warn residents that scam artists have put a couple of different twists on some phone calls to try to coerce people to send them money. Since the beginning of September, deputies have responded to several complaints in v...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard is helping a marine scientist release more than 500 sea turtle hatchlings by hand off the coast of Boca Raton.
On Thursday, crewmembers from Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale will assist Melanie Stadler, a ma...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report says federal efforts to rebuild depleted fish populations have largely been successful, but pressure to overfish some species remains high and some fish stocks have not rebounded as quickly as projected.
The report comes fro...