During a Budget Reconciliation/Approval of Tentative Millage Rate meeting on Manatee County Commissioners voted 5-1 to hold the general millage rate steady ahead of upcoming TRIM ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is questioning the federal government’s recruitment of Florida’s local and state police who are focused on enforcing immigration laws. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

Members of both parties on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chastised a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Wednesday for not consulting Congress before proposing to shift thousands of jobs ...

Derek Trucks was, it seems, born to play guitar. A child prodigy, by 13, Trucks had played with legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy. At 20, he formed the Derek Trucks Band, then, at 25 … ...

The League of Women Voters of Manatee County Government Committee observes Manatee County Commission meetings for items of interest to citizens and the League and notes adherence, or lack of adherence ...

The city of Miami’s proposal to delay its general municipal election scheduled for this November until next year without voter approval has been ruled unconstitutional by Florida’s Third District ...

Berry of Bradenton, FL peacefully passed away while taking a nap on her favorite sofa on July 17, 2025 with her loving family close at hand. Known as Jeannie (or Gran) to those ...

Thomasina Rena Willis Hutto, age 91, of Startown Road in Lincolnton, passed away on Monday,July 28, 2025. Mrs. Hutto was born September 30, 1933, in Tallevast, Florida, to the late Wilbur (Bill) ...

WASHINGTON — A dozen Democratic members of Congress filed a lawsuit Wednesday charging that the Trump administration is blocking lawmakers from conducting congressional oversight of federal … ...

Orlando Congressman Maxwell Frost speaks about housing affordability problems in the Florida Capitol on Jan. 24, 2024. (Photo by Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix)A day after Florida Attorney General ...