Manatee County Superintendent Dr. Laurie Breslin discusses academic gains, school safety, attendance and preparations for the ...

Officials say the reduction is necessary to manage a limited staff while maintaining high-quality services.

Voters will decide in November whether they want to pay extra tax dollars to fund the purchase and maintenance of ...

Manatee is hardly the first Florida county to reach for the brakes. Nassau County’s earlier pause froze new data-center ...

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In Florida, over a dozen counties have opted for temporary moratoriums or bans on data centers.

Florida students will go back to school soon. Here's when school starts in Manatee County and back-to-school sales tax ...

The charge is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Residents persuaded county commissioners to reconsider the Premier Sports Campus site for the planned ice rink.

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For years, county commissioners absorbed those administrative fees.