Gov. Ron DeSantis made an appearance at New College of Florida on Monday morning to announce that the winner of the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI) State Championship will receive a trophy named to honor Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated in September.

Sarasota County is allocating nearly $14.5 million for the initial phase of dredging Phillippi Creek to address flooding. The project follows severe flooding from Hurricane Debby in 2024, which highlighted significant sediment buildup in the waterway.

A Sarasota restaurant that debuted on Bee Ridge Road and earlier this year added a location at The Landings shopping plaza has now opened a third spot near world-famous Siesta Beach. Casa Masa, a Mexican restaurant that serves Oaxacan-style cuisine with a “unique twist” and also describes itself as “untraditionally traditional,

With staff having vacated in preparation for the final move to its new center, the Sarasota County Commission gaveled out its final meeting on Ringling Boulevard.

The public records request revealed text messages between a woman living next door to the park and a friend of hers. The messages were sent to city employees, who out of an abundance of caution, removed the basketball hoop in the park. It was restored last Thursday after an outcry from the community.

The Strauss Fund for Children’s Literacy is supporting a broad coalition of schools and nonprofits across Sarasota, Manatee and DeSoto counties.

The Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation has been awarded a $20,000 grant from the Newtown Community Redevelopment Agency to support the Resilient Roots: Empowered Preservation of the Newtown National Historic District initiative.

Effective Oct. 27, Access Sarasota will be off the air on Comcast channel 19 and Frontier channel 32 until the county moves into its new administration center on Apex Road in early 2026.

Named “Casa del Carnevale” in tribute to Sarasota’s rich circus heritage, the historic waterfront estate was built in 1936 by Midwestern industrialist Charles E. Leigh, co-founder of the Lavoris Chemical Company and inventor of Lavoris mouthwash, according to a news release from listing agency Coldwell Banker Realty.

For more than a hundred weekends, Gisele Pintchuck stood on a downtown Sarasota street corner holding a photo of a young man she’d never met: an Israeli named Omer Shem Tov.

SARASOTA, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference on Monday morning in Sarasota. Governor Ron DeSantis, Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins, Florida Department of Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas and New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran are expected to join the governor.