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The 2021 fiscal year saw more than $31 million collected from hotels and short-term vacation rentals.

Actress Mayim Bialik plays a scientist on the top-rated television comedy "The Big Bang Theory."But she's also a scientist in real life - Bialik earned a…

Sarasota County is under fire for the massive amount of treated wastewater that has spilled from its Bee Ridge treatment facility into local waterways....

The Sarasota County School Board has voted to keep its new gender guidelines following weeks of acrimony over the issue of parental notification. The...

Sarasota County's new COVID-19 vaccine appointment registration system is set to launch at noon on Wednesday, Jan 20.The new system will assign appointments on a first come, first served basis and unlike the previous system, it allows people to sign up via telephone as well as online.

70 competitors vied for tasty title in annual stone crab season tradition.

Sarasota Ballet opens its 2025-2026 season with Program 1 – Intrinsic. The repertoire includes three dances. The first is Dame Alicia Markova’s production of Fokine’s "Les Sylphides" — a romantic era ballet that paved the way for future choreographers to let music and movement drive the story. That’s followed by the world premiere of “The Lorenz Butterfly” by choreographer Jessica Lang and Will Tuckett’s “Changing Light,” created for the Sarasota Ballet in 2013.

The 28th Annual Sarasota Film Festival takes place April 10-19. This year's festival includes over 200 features, documentaries and short films exploring both local and global issues. The festival also features red carpet premieres, community-wide street festivals, filmmaker Q&A sessions and exclusive industry panels.

A forum featuring descendants of six former United States presidents, including grandsons of Jimmy Carter and Harry Truman, highlighted Presidents Day weekend at the Harry S. Truman Little White House in Key West. James Earl Carter IV, Clifton Truman Daniel and other descendants discussed the importance of historical preservation related to presidencies during the forum at the Little White House, now Florida’s only presidential museum.

A red tide algae bloom is persisting along Sarasota County beaches. Background concentrations of the toxic organism Karenia brevis are typical in Gulf...