A New Jersey-based lender announced Wednesday that it was financing Lost Lagoon Development’s purchase of 101 acres of raw land in Murdock Village.
A month-long investigation revealed that an Englewood man allegedly committed obscene sexual crimes involving multiple children.
The county's three top administrators got mostly top marks during a year that became an unending crisis.
NORTH PORT — A man has been airlifted to a local hospital after he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a home, police said.
Charlotte County Public Schools devised a new “innovative” virtual education plan that was rolled out last week, but teachers are still in the…
Here are the latest coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics available for Florida and our area counties, as of 11:30 a.m. Sept. 23. The next update…
SARASOTA — How best can Sarasota County protect homes along the Gulf shoreline from being undermined by cycles of erosion?
All children in Sarasota County can get free breakfast and lunch from now until Dec. 31.
ENGLEWOOD — Charlotte County Sheriff’s detectives obtained arrest warrants Wednesday for Matthew Harden and Stephen Dukes, owners of now defun…
ENGLEWOOD — The Charlotte County Sheriff's Office has issued arrest warrants for Mathew Harden and Stephen Dukes, owners of HD Custom Homes, a…
LAUREL - Interstate 75 northbound was closed for a period of time Wednesday morning and, at 9 a.m., only the center and left lanes are open, F…
VENICE — Venice Regional Bayfront Health is allowing visitors again, with health and safety guidelines that include a temperature check and he…
A 48-year-old local man is being held in the Charlotte County Jail on dozens of child molestation charges.
SARASOTA — A group called Concerned Parents of Sarasota Schools is collecting signatures in an attempt to expel Shirley Brown, a longtime memb…
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State and federal health officials are telling local governments to be prepared to distribute the first coronavirus vaccines by November, Char…
SARASOTA — The Sarasota County School District has reported 39 positive COVID-19 cases since re-opening schools Aug. 31, according to numbers …
Charlotte County commissioners changed course Tuesday and authorized grants to local businesses even if they have received federal pandemic aid.
SARASOTA — Sarasota County commissioners took the first step Tuesday toward the potential elimination of affordable housing requirements in th…
PORT CHARLOTTE — No more “interim director.” Sean Doherty is now the director of Charlotte County’s Punta Gorda/Englewood Beach Visitor & …
This evening is your last chance to weigh in on Charlotte County’s $725,887,714 proposed budget before commissioners vote.
Members of the North Port Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated the end of a tough chamber year and installed brand new board members for 2020-2…
ENGLEWOOD — Who says the show can’t go on during COVID-19?
Fostering an animal typically means giving a shelter critter a temporary home and lots of TLC, and even assisting the shelter in finding a for…
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The director of Human Resources at the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office is under investigation.
NORTH PORT — Karla Cordero was going crazy. The coronavirus had just closed Sarasota County schools after Spring Break, and her three kids sat…
BRADENTON — Far, far away, not in another galaxy, but in another decade or two, the city of North Port could see a new interchange to Interstate 75.