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The latest housing market report shows how many Manatee County single-family, townhouses and condos were sold in March.

To help accommodate the fast-growing area, work is underway to bring a new hospital to the area. BayCare Hospital Manatee ...

The county sold its current downtown Sarasota administration building to Benderson Development for $25 million in December ...

The acute-care hospital, which will include 154 private inpatient beds, will be built alongside a 45,000-square-foot ...

Manatee County officials will consider a $34 million investment into property in Lakewood Ranch to relocate administrative services eastward.

The charges against Scott Hopes have been updated after his legal team argued original charges were not specific enough.

A Manatee County teacher resigned while under investigation amid allegations he wrote an inappropriate letter and spent ...

Sarasota County is in the midst of moving its administration center east and out of its administration building on Ringling ...

The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a teacher who is accused of sending an inappropriate letter to one of ...

Court records show on April 16 the State Attorney's Office decided to not prosecute Scott Hopes with notary fraud and added ...

Manatee County is rolling out — literally and figuratively — wheeled 96-gallon trash-collection bins as part of an overall ...