Suncoast Searchlight

Suncoast Searchlight partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims.

Rhonda Calahan runs Queens of Domestic Violence and Awareness, a small nonprofit organization she launched to help survivors find safety, counseling and support.

A look at immigration enforcement across Florida under the Trump administration show findings related to ICE detainers with comparisons to last year, across counties, and where Florida fits in among other states.

The strategic plan, which Superintendent Terry Connor plans to present on Tuesday, involves expanding programs in schools with the most vacant seats, razing or reconfiguring some campus buildings and more.

Suncoast Searchlight partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims.

A Suncoast Searchlight analysis finds Sarasota County’s public and charter schools are nearly equally under capacity — operating at 82% and 84% utilization, respectively — challenging the premise of Florida’s new “Schools of Hope” law.

The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office has reaped hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars to fund the effort through reimbursements from the state’s Immigration Enforcement Board and tens of thousands for its work at Alligator Alcatraz.

How law enforcement struggles to rein in illegal “adult arcades,” told through the saga of Spin Fun Arcade.

As Mater Academy seeks to co-locate inside Oak Park School — Sarasota County’s only K-12 school for students with special needs — the move raises critical questions about how charter schools serve (or fail to serve) children with disabilities.

For more than a year, Sarasota City Hall’s first-floor bathrooms have been out of order — and for months now, every toilet in the historic building has been shut down as crews rip out and replace its crumbling plumbing.

Suncoast Searchlight partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims.

Facing with an uncertain financial landscape for rural hospitals, the hospital board voted to hear competing presentations from Tampa General Hospital, AdventHealth and NorthStar.