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The latest housing market report shows how many Manatee County single-family, townhouses and condos were sold in March.

The county sold its current downtown Sarasota administration building to Benderson Development for $25 million in December ...

To help accommodate the fast-growing area, work is underway to bring a new hospital to the area. BayCare Hospital Manatee ...

The acute-care hospital, which will include 154 private inpatient beds, will be built alongside a 45,000-square-foot ...

Manatee County officials will consider a $34 million investment into property in Lakewood Ranch to relocate administrative services eastward.

The charges against Scott Hopes have been updated after his legal team argued original charges were not specific enough.

A Manatee County teacher resigned while under investigation amid allegations he wrote an inappropriate letter and spent ...

Another person has come forward with allegations that a former New College of Florida official and spokesperson for Florida ...

Sarasota County is in the midst of moving its administration center east and out of its administration building on Ringling ...

Dramatic video shows how authorities in Manatee County wrangled and “expelled” an alligator from a high school campus—in ...