Longboat Key News

The region's economic downturn is not paying attention to social status and is starting to take down commercial and residential developers alike.

Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 10:20 p.m. {CUTLINES}Florida members of Congress participating in key roll-call votes last week included Sens.

Published: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 3:55 a.m. Northern Trust recently appointed Lisa M. Mead as a vice president of trust administration in the company's ...

Randy Bayard has been named general manager of the AAA Four Diamond Award Winning Vero Beach Hotel & Club announced today by Lee Weeks, Chief Executive Office of Coral Hospitality , the property's management ...

Published: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 2:27 a.m. On June 3 Longboat Key commissioners got their first real look at what the drop in property tax assessments ...

North Port has surpassed Sarasota as Sarasota County's most populous city, according to new census estimates.

At 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Martin Fricke opened his door at The Gardens off Whitfield Avenue to find two officers with the Florida Highway Patrol bearing tragic news - four hours earlier, Fricke's 25-year-old son, ...

A set of fish bones that washed up on Longboat Key has left experts stumped as to the exact origin.

The trustee in the Brasota Mortgage bankruptcy case is reaching the end of a series of distributions to creditors.

Published Tuesday, July 8, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Monday, July 7, 2008 at 11:40 p.m. A badly split Longboat Key Town Commission decided Monday - at least for the moment - on a maximum operating property ...

With a group of restaurants fronting the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway, it probably comes as no surprise that Ed Chiles has strong views about drilling for oil off Florida's coast.

Published Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 1:48 p.m. Last updated Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 1:53 p.m. At least on the surface, political experts say there is nothing surprising about the District 13 race turning ...

Published Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 2:38 a.m. A letter to the editor awhile back has been bugging me: By driving 35 mph in the city and 65 mph on highways, the ...

The Robinsons were just walking along the beach one day when there, in the sand, was the strangest-looking skeleton they ever did see.

Published Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 5:06 a.m. The mystery is still unsolved.

Anna Maria Island and Longboat Key officials have joined forces with local cops and the West Manatee Fire District to put out one simple message: Don't use illegal fireworks in Manatee County.

A set of bones found on the beach by Tiffany Robinson and her children could be a deep-sea snake or an eel, a taxidermist told the family.

Regarding "Longboat Key worries about Sarasota project": After reading the concerns about the proposed Proscenium "Hospitality Regional Activity Center" project in downtown Sarasota, at U.S. 41 and Boulevard of ...

Published Monday, June 23, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Monday, June 23, 2008 at 3:37 a.m. Gregg A. Binford's 10 years of experience in the Sarasota real estate industry appear to be paying off: his ...

Published Friday, June 20, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last updated Friday, June 20, 2008 at 6:19 a.m. Don't tell anyone, but snook are in the surf.