President Donald Trump issued an executive order to establish a review council for FEMA. He criticized the agency's handling of disasters, suggesting it might be scrapped. FEMA, responsible for ...

Residents turned out in support of Annie's Bait & Tackle shop in Cortez following purchase of the Seafood Shack property by Manatee County.

Are they reopening? 19 Sarasota-area restaurants, resorts, and shops temporarily or permanently closed due to damage from ...

Economic losses from hurricanes and other natural disasters soared in the U.S. last year and were above average globally, ...

Hurricane Helene ... in Bradenton Beach on Anna Maria Island, Florida, Oct. 10, 2024. Credit: AP/Rebecca Blackwell While it's impossible to predict the timing, location and losses from natural ...

Two days after Hurricane Helene made landfall on September 26 last year, Robert Sawyer, a 68-year-old retired airline pilot, ...

With Southwest Florida's economy showing signs of weakening, new home construction plunges. It hasn't been this low in the Naples area since 2014.

Direct Relief's mission is to expand healthcare access. Founded in 1948, the group supplies free medical resources across the ...

Teachers union President Cecily Myart-Cruz and administrators’ union president Maria Nichols sharply criticized ... five or six simultaneous fires with hurricane-level strength, winds with ...

Anna Maria Island -- located midway between Sarasota and Tampa, but a world apart from either – continues to recover from ...

The Gulf Islands Ferry in Manatee County will no longer stop on the northern end of Anna Maria Island until the city of Anna Maria fixes a pier damaged last year by Hurricane Milton. The service ...