Marco Island will replace 11,500 water meters to cut leaks, improve accuracy, boost revenues and meet new EPA lead rules.

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring notched another busy week with documenting the activity of nesting ...

Securing re-entry tags now can help assure a smooth post-hurricane return for Manatee County barrier island if a storm hits ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — Earlier this month ... it's to give tours out on the water. “We've been coming up on about four years now giving tours out here," said Fortenberry, the owner of ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. (WWSB) - Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch reports a busy week on the beach, with an increase in disoriented turtles and installing barriers to help keep nesting turtles away from ...

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. (WWSB) - An ABC7 viewer captured a water spout forming Friday morning off Anna Maria Island. The ...

Construction on a new subaqueous intracoastal water main to Anna Maria Island is on — or under — the near horizon. Manatee ...

The Rod & Reel Pier is reopening on Anna Maria Island after its destruction in a hurricane — but it’s in a new location.

ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — It’s been nearly six months ... and walked through the restaurant and had almost hip level of water and everything was displaced,” said Suzor.

That resilience was evident everywhere I looked on Anna Maria Island. Mere months ago, there was 3 feet of standing water in several businesses, and sand was piled along roads and against buildings.

It could take weeks for crews to fully repair a water main break that occurred on Monday afternoon, but services to Anna Maria Island residents served by the line should not be interrupted.

Toes-in-the-sand dining and adventures on the water: Anna Maria Island and Bradenton, halfway down the west coast of Florida, offers a compendium of indulgence in alluring natural surroundings.