Author: WENG Newsroom

A water outage is scheduled for the city of Venice Wednesday and will take place from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The purpose of the outage is to repair a water main. The... Read More.

A Venice man that was involved in a December road rage incident on US-41 is now facing charges. Court documents released this week claim 43-year old Abdual Boyd was cutting cars and swerving through... Read More.

Sarasota County and Charlotte County emergency operations officials are set to meet this week to discuss operations and preparations ahead of the upcoming hurricane season. One of the topics expected to come up is... Read More.

Police in North Port are asking for the public’s help in finding a man they claim tried to kidnap a child. Officials say the incident happened around 830 yesterday morning near Berwick St and... Read More.

Republican Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is taking the father of a teenager who died in the Parkland school shooting to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday. Scott announced today he’s... Read More.

Florida's new school "guardian" program has faced reluctance from many school districts, leading Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday to propose using $57 million that's gone unspent to try to get more districts to participate.

A bicyclist was killed early Sunday morning after being struck by a car in Sarasota. It happened around 1am at U.S. 41 and Waldemere Street. Police say the bicyclist was struck while in the northbound... Read More.

Tomorrow, the Venice Planning Commission will present the site and development plan for the new Venice Public Safety Complex to the public for the first time. The more than 31,000-square foot building will also... Read More.

Three people were injured -one critically- following a weekend crash on Veterans Boulevard in Punta Gorda. Police say 45-year old Charles Caputo rear-ended a pickup at a stoplight, causing a chain reaction crash. In... Read More.

A Venice day care worker is facing child abuse charges after surveillance video captured her "aggressively handling" three toddlers. Witnesses told police they saw 26-year-old Jamie Smithmyer abusing a child at Manasota Beach Daycare... Read More.