State Judge Judge J. Lee Marsh’s ruling was limited to North Florida after plaintiffs abandoned claims that other districts also violated the state Constitution.

The School District of Manatee County remained largely tight-lipped after Braden River High School told 17-year-old Lizzy Martinez to cover her nipples with bandages when she decided not to wear a...

Sunday, Florida reported the most new COVID-19 cases any state has in a single day, 15,300.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top-notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

The driver couldn’t escape the vehicle.

Nigerian artist Burna Boy headlines a music festival in Miami at the start of Carnival.

Three statewide elections in Florida are all close enough to require machine recounts, and two of them would require hand recounts of ballots, based on the latest results posted by the state Friday.

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Nigerian artist Burna Boy headlines a music festival in Miami at the start of Carnival.

Dakota “Kody” James Horth didn’t get to help wrap his beloved nephew’s Christmas presents or watch him open them.

For Hurricane Irma’s victims, help comes in darkness.

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Atlanta Falcons cornerback Brian Poole was back in Manatee County on Friday to conduct a one-day free football camp in conjunction with the Manatee Police Athletic League. The camp, which ran from...

A public records watchdog on Wednesday asked a Tallahassee judge to charge the DeSantis administration with contempt of court for continuing to withhold public records about its handling of the...

Brion Carnes scrolled through his phone, searching for old photos from his days with Manatee High and Northern Iowa. Inside the equipment room at Manatee High School, where the Hurricanes were...

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and other lawmakers Tuesday introduced the newest version of the Synthetics Trafficking & Overdose Prevention, or STOP, Act as part of effort to restrict the flow of powerful...

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is positioning himself for reelection next year, signed legislation on Monday at Florida International University in Miami that aims to crack down on social media...

IMG Academy broke ground on a 150-room upscale boutique hotel on the northern edge of the 500-plus acre campus at 5450 Bollettieri Blvd.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 guidelines for cruise lines returning to operation are rules, not suggestions, a federal appeals court ruled Saturday night, reversing a lower...

A controversial measure being contemplated by Florida lawmakers to cap the potency of medical marijuana will apparently not become law this year.

The first major upset of the college football season fell in Andrew Zink’s hands.

A California psychiatrist who has advised Gov. Ron DeSantis on the coronavirus pandemic recently promoted a drug for COVID-19 patients that federal disease experts have strongly warned against after...

A newspaper revealed that dozens of private schools accept taxpayer money and exclude students based on their sexual orientation, including one in Manatee County, sparking debates on religious...

Jeopardy fans in Manatee County should have nailed at least one of Tuesday night’s Double Jeopardy questions.

In the midst of what is believed to be Florida’s worst bout of red tide in at least a decade, hundreds of people gathered along the beach on Anna Maria Island on Sunday morning and stood hand-in-hand...

It looks like a beautiful start to the work week Monday, with partly sunny skies and highs in the mid 70s in Bradenton, according to the National Weather Service.

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The draw of nearly 3,000 teens to the Manatee County Civic Center in 1994 was Ian Eskelin, a Christian rock artist a couple years shy of his first Grammy nomination. But the message of the rally,...

Tropical Depression Grace, which was downgraded earlier Sunday from a tropical storm, continued to move west in the Caribbean — aiming for the Dominican Republic and Haiti as forecasts call for heavy...

Margaret Good, D-Sarasota, defeated Republican James Buchanan and Libertarian Alison Foxall in Tuesday’s special election for the vacated District 72 seat of the Florida House of Representatives.

Saint Stephen’s erased a 14-point halftime deficit against Vero Beach Saint Edward’s to win the Sunshine State Athletic Conference championship 21-14 on Saturday at Pennington Field. Quarterback Fred...

In what would be his first political event in the state since taking office, President Joe Biden will stump for Charlie Crist in South Florida one week before Election Day as Crist vies to unseat...

Donald Trump won by a landslide as Manatee County’s pick for the president of the United States in the 2020 General Election.

The Miami Herald has retracted a story published on Dec. 2, 2022 that incorrectly stated the amount of money Florida had spent on migrant relocation.

The coronavirus pandemic has uprooted so many lives throughout the world.

A veteran Monroe County sheriff’s deputy turned himself in Tuesday on charges that he illegally accessed the Florida driver’s license database, as well as another state crime database, to conduct...

The Bradenton Area Convention & Visitors Bureau unleashed a storm Friday, symbolized by #BoycottBradenton, when it was revealed that it was the sponsor of a Pittsburgh Penguins rally towel -- just...

As the delta variant spreads through Florida, data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest this could be the most serious and deadly surge in COVID-19 infections since the...

Sen. Bill Nelson sharply criticized Donald Trump's nominee for the number two position at the Interior Department on Thursday, saying in a speech on the Senate floor that he plans to oppose David...

A Manatee County resident and a Hillsborough County resident have tested “presumptively positive” for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office....

The treatment of residents at Bayside Villas is “uncalled for,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said in a letter sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday.

“We don’t have to all have the same opinion, but to be able to come together civilly and express ourselves is a freedom that every American should enjoy.”

Southwest Airlines plans to launch service to Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in the first quarter of 2021.

A historic figure in Manatee County died early Friday morning after a battle with COVID-19.

One of the few stark details Tom Carpenter can remember from Sam Jackson’s days at American Taekwondo Association Carpenter’s Family Taekwondo is the nickname his mother gave him.

It was one of the worst times something could go wrong.

Bradenton Manatee High tapped former Florida Gators star Jacquez Green, who played four seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during his NFL career, as its interim head football coach.

Manatee County officials have declared a state of emergency ahead of Tropical Storm Elsa’s projected arrival along the Gulf Coast of Florida this coming week.

Residents may not be too surprised, but the Bradenton-Sarasota-North Port area has earned a spot on another destination list.

Small became the Hurricanes' 10th state champion with his Class 3A title in the 160-pound weight class.

Miami-Dade police on Saturday night identified two more victims whose bodies were pulled from the rubble of the partially collapsed Surfside condominium tower near Miami Beach.

Hollywood police have arrested a man they believe responsible for Ariel Gonzalez’s decomposing body being jammed into a closet of his blood-and-feces spattered apartment.

Lauren Walck has been named executive editor of the Bradenton Herald, starting Oct. 25.