Sarasota

Criminal citations for sleeping outside in Sarasota have increased more than fourteenfold since 2020, driven in part by expanded police training that now empowers officers throughout the department to enforce the city's lodging ordinance.

The latest legal clash comes just months after SITC Inc. sued Sarasota County and each commissioner for voting down Live Local projects located in rural neighborhoods.

Nate Jacobs' Sarasota-based company returns with a new revue celebrating Marvin Gaye at the biennial festival in North Carolina.

Lynn Goldsmith's "Shared Light" takes visitors on a garden pathway lined with fine art photographs of flowers. Inside, images of the gardens' artist in residence, rock legend Patti Smith, hang next to equally dramatic floral images.

During the last five years, the Florida Legislature has voted to pass more than 50 laws restricting local government’s ability to respond to issues ranging from how they manage growth to how they fund roads or oversee elections.

Scrappy is still alive, still swimming in Sarasota Bay — and thanks to researchers who freed him — helping tell a much bigger story about dolphin conservation.

For Sarasota County Commissioner Joe Neunder and his reelection challenger Jim DeNiro, this year’s District 4 primary has become a battle of who can paint the other as most friendly to developers.

Questions remain about what organizations will receive state support.

July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, marks the day the 32-acre USF campus transfers to New College of Florida. However, NCF must take responsibility $53 million of USF debt by December or the deal is nullified.

Area's oldest performing arts organization expects to move into new Payne Park theater in January.

The transition comes a week after Suncoast Searchlight published details of a third-party review commissioned by the district to vet complaints of cheating, sexual harassment and misuse of school resources at Riverview High.

Republican incumbent Mark Smith faces challenger Kristina Sargent in the District 2 Sarasota County Commission race, a contest to represent the county’s most politically moderate district.