Melissa Manchester first saw the musical Funny Girl, starring the legendary Barbra Streisand on Broadway as indomitable comedienne-singer Fanny Brice, when she was “a very little girl,” she says.

Lakewood Ranch's ever-growing Waterside Place is adding yet another new business to its roster: Duck Donuts, which opens Saturday, Jan. 11. The popular national franchise is based out of North ...

Sarasota County Tax Collector Barbara Ford-Coates is the longest-serving elected official in Sarasota County history. She was ...

Southern California is a high desert. Rainfall is tricky even in the best of times. And in a world where the climate has warmed by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit in just over 100 years, as shown by ...

As we editors look back on 2024 for our annual Year in Review roundups, every conversation about what should be included has ...

Sprawling Lakewood Ranch has been named the second-best-selling master-planned community in the United States for 2024, trailing only The Villages in Central Florida, according to RLCO's annual ...

Our roundup of our most-clicked-on stories of the year contains some obvious picks (like breaking news about the hurricanes), ...

Have you ever dreamed of taking off on a journey into space? Many of us have, but probably most of us don’t realize what the experience would really be like—especially on a one-astronaut ...

Over 10 years of performing with Sarasota Orchestra, someone inevitably asks me which Masterworks concert they should go to each season. Oftentimes they ask me in terms of which one is “the best.” ...

The newest addition to Sarasota's public art collection is set to make its debut tomorrow. Poly, a 20-foot-tall cylindric sculpture by New York artist Hou de Sousa, will be installed in the ...

Casa Masa’s second location opens this Friday, Jan. 10, in The Landings shopping plaza on Tamiami Trail. Owner Rob DiSilvio purchased Casa Masa's original location on Bee Ridge Road, then called ...

The deadline for Floridians to apply for FEMA assistance after Hurricanes Milton and Helene is Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. Homeowners and renters with losses from the storms may be eligible for FEMA ...