Local leaders and residents react to Juneteenth, the date slavery was abolished in the United States, is now the 11th federal holiday. Earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed the bill into law on Thursday, honoring June 19, 1865, the day the final slaves in Galveston, Texas learned of their freedom, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
With the tropical storm system well to our north we will not see the heavy rain associated with it but some of the clouds will be working over the Suncoast through the weekend.
Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a measure that the Legislature approved to crack down on violent protests.
‘Dad’ jokes are par for the course in households around the world. The jokes often elicit a groan but deputies and employees of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s office attempted to make straight-faced Sheriff Bill Prummell laugh.
The Burmese python is a nonvenomous but invasive species in Florida. The Florida Wildilife Commission has started a program that will reward participants if they help capture these snakes in the wild.
Though Florida unemployment slightly ticked up in May, the rate was far below the previous year and remained lower than the national rate, according to statistics released by the state on Friday.
As scientists and environmentalist monitor the presence of type of blue green algae called Lyngbya in our water ways, Manatee County officials are looking to minimize it.
Tropical storm warnings are now up for parts of the N. Gulf coast. From S. Central Louisiana through Alabama as Potential Tropical Cyclone #3 heads northward toward Louisiana.
Florida’s former chief science officer said a leak in a reservoir at a former phosphate plant in Manatee County isn’t the cause of a red tide outbreak along beaches this week in Pinellas County.
For the second time in two months, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at allowing people to use recreational marijuana.
On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas were informed that they were now liberated. It was two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and many had no idea the Civil War had ended.
Looks like the third named storm of the season will have an impact on the U.S. this weekend. The disturbance we’ve been following for the past 5 days is likely to become tropical storm Claudette over the weekend as it heads toward Louisiana.
Sarasota County Schools are going back to full time in person learning during the 2021-22 school year, but there are virtual instruction options for those who wish to instruct their students at home.
Florida Power & Light imploded the towering chimney stack of its last coal-fired generating plant on Wednesday, a milestone in its transition to cleaner energy sources.
Florida officials this week disputed arguments that a new law limiting contributions to ballot-initiative efforts should be blocked because it violates First Amendment rights.
It has been nice seeing some rainfall over parts of our area lately. That will continue again on Wednesday with a west to southwest wind and the trough of low pressure over N. Florida we will see scattered showers
