The creek earned its spirited name during Prohibition, when rumrunners allegedly used it as a smuggling route. Today, it serves a much more wholesome purpose as a protected manatee sanctuary ...

This creek earned its colorful name during Prohibition, when rumrunners supposedly used it as a smuggling route to avoid authorities. Today, it serves a more wholesome purpose as a protected manatee ...

Manatee County commissioners greenlit a $23.5 million land purchase in Lakewood Ranch to relocate many government services from downtown Bradenton. The county earmarked nearly $35 million for the ...

Atlantic herring haven’t been able to swim up the Monatiquot River since the Industrial Revolution, when rubber and cork ...

Manatee County commissioners are considering a $23.5 million land purchase in Lakewood Ranch to relocate services from the current downtown Bradenton administrative building. The county earmarked ...

A Manatee County teacher resigned while under investigation amid allegations he wrote an inappropriate letter and spent unsupervised time with an 11-year-old student. Jarrett Williams, who taught ...

Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces for air, some of them exchange wide smiles.

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil — Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces for ...

BRADENTON, Fla. – Manatee County commissioners voted Tuesday morning to stop adding fluoride to county drinking water. The vote was 5-1 to stop adding the mineral. In discussing the move ...

PALMETTO, Fla. (WFLA) — The landscape across Manatee County is changing, especially east of Interstate 75. Along Moccasin Wallow Road in Palmetto, there is construction and new developments ...

New train companies like Brightline have launched in places like Florida, and after a decades-long hiatus, Amtrak will soon reconnect the route between ... sure to see the manatee-filled waters ...

Manatees in Florida's Indian River Lagoon are starving to death as pollutants in the water are killing off the sea grass, which is the main source of food for the animals. Manatees in Florida's ...