Every year, June 1 – It’s official Hurricane Season. Generator This is an expensive piece of equipment, but I wouldn’t live in Florida without one. After Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne in 2004, we decide to invest in a portable generator. We wanted to be able to run our fridge, a window air conditioner, a few lights, [...]

Sarasota is the best place in Florida to call home.

U.S. News & World Report placed the Sarasota metro area No. 21, ahead of any other place in Florida, for its100 Best Places to Live in the USA.

Indeed, the biggest factor affecting the ranking is net migration, which ranks 10 on a one-to-10 scale of the criteria U.S. News & World Report [...]

The City Commission approved a $338,000 contract with a private operator to start a free, on-demand transportation service in the heart of the city. Within the next 60 days, a new on-demand transit service will make its debut in downtown Sarasota. The City Commission voted 5-0 Monday to approve a contract with The Gotcha Group, a [...]

 21-room Siesta Key Palms Hotel, a boutique style resort with a five-star attitude

New owner has given 1950s building a complete facelift Henry Rodriguez has taken a motel more than a half century old at the gateway to Siesta Key and spun it into a luxury, boutique resort. It's an Old Florida environment — without feeling so old. [...]

Siesta Beach is no stranger to accolades for its supreme sands. In the just-released list of “America’s Best Beaches”, Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman, also known as Dr. Beach, has ranked Siesta number two in the country. “We’re really thrilled,” says Lynn Hobeck Bates, communications manager for [...]

Bradenton-Sarasota-North Port region is the third happiest community in U.S. The Bradenton-Sarasota-North Port area was ranked the third-highest community for well-being in the United States by the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index released Tuesday, February 23, a drop from No. 1 last year. Well-being encompasses five elements: purpose, [...]

In addition to bringing back some form of seating to Five Points, city staff will experiment with other opportunities to increase activity at the popular downtown park. If you want a place to sit down in Selby Five Points Park, you’ll be in luck soon — although there’s still no set plan for what exactly the new seating will look like. [...]

Tropical island ambiance with the comforts of craft beer and fine art helped land the City of Sarasota on the “2016 Top 100 Best Places to Live.” Most Livable Cities - Sarasota showed up as No. 31 on the list along with places like Boulder, Colorado; Santa Rosa, California; and Madison, Wisconsin. The other Florida entries on the list, [...]

SARASOTA - Construction is underway on the Rosemary Square mixed-use project, the latest new development in the long-blighted Rosemary District north of downtown. The $20 million project, 1440 Boulevard of the Arts, will include 50 condominium units and 30,000 square feet of retail and office space in four buildings, city documents show. [...]