Manatee County

Vias at Bradenton LLC, the buyer, will pay $14.1 million for the property and demolish City Hall and other structures to build residential, hotel and commercial/retail spaces.

In Manatee County, a drone delivery system recently started to speed up the arrival of lifesaving treatment for medical emergencies in which every second counts.

Expanded development and lack of prescribed burns have been hurting scrub jay habitats throughout Florida.

A Manatee County woman with no training in mental health services pretended to be a licensed social worker during online therapy sessions with Brightside Health patients.

By 2035, the county's population is expected to grow by 70,000, prompting commissioners to revise its comprehensive plan.

The proposed development would provide 132 apartments on nearly five acres of district-owned land for Manatee County school district employees.

Nina Venter is a Senior Transportation Planner for the Sarasota-Manatee metropolitan planning organization. She says Northeast Manatee County alone is projected to have a population similar to Fort Lauderdale's by 2050.

In November, the farm's owner announced plans to sell the farm, which was devastated by Hurricane Ian.

The Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast has permanently preserved 64 acres of land in Manatee County. The Crooked River Ranch is one of the last large, privately owned parcels on the Manatee River.

The National Weather Service Monday issued a high surf advisory for coastal Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Hillsborough, and Manatee counties and also Pinellas County from 7 p.m. Monday to 1 a.m. Wednesday.

The Point in Time survey paves the way toward helping those in need.

The new building will more than double the 10,000 square feet of the current space. It will be named for Steve and Natalee Herrig, who donated $2 million for the project from their family foundation.