For Florida’s manatee population and manatee conservationists around the world, 2025 was a banner year. ZooTampa’s David A.

Manatee County just broke ground on Valor Commons, a one-of-a-kind facility in the Tampa Bay area that's dedicated to ...

Every single week, we have an elderly senior who sits in our office and talks about how they have lost everything,” a ...

If you don't want to brave the cold temperatures to see Manatee Park in person, click here for a live camera of the manatees ...

Ahead of the coldest front of the season arriving tonight, cold weather shelters are opening in both Sarasota and Manatee ...

Manatees remain among the most charismatic 'canaries' in Indian River Lagoon's ecological ‘coal mine.’ In 2025, they kept ...

The trend in Sarasota County differs from national trends, but Manatee is on par with national figures and the increase in ...

The eleven-day Manatee County Fair is held each January at the Manatee County Fairgrounds in Palmetto, Florida. You can learn ...

Sunshine State? 697 manatees flocked to Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2026, ...

Commissioner George Kruse says adopting a county charter is worth exploring. "Anything we can do to have a say, is a good ...

Manatee County Government officials announce that cold weather shelters will open Thursday and Friday at The Salvation Army, ...

In 2025, the Manatee County Natural Resources' Prescribed Burn Team lit 36 fires and burned 13,950 acres of land across seven ...