More than 100 volunteers turned out yesterday for the annual 'Christmas in the Park' in Sarasota. It was the tenth annual event in which volunteers feed and hand out clothes for the homeless. More... Read More.

A surgery being performed by Florida doctors will hopefully remove a ten-pound tumor from a Cuban boy's face. The surgery will take place on Jan. 12 at Jackson's Holtz Children's Hospital. The boy was... Read More.

A pair of Florida lawmakers want to up the smoking age to 21. Healthcare cost to Floridians are at the center of the push, as well as reducing the number of young smokers. There... Read More.

Sometimes a favorite jacket or pair of socks is hard to part with but for one Florida man living in Bali, it has escalated to epic proportions. Jeff Swedenhjelm fell off his roof to... Read More.

Punta Gorda Airport is getting a new tenant- charter company Exec Air. The Naples-based carrier will offer scheduled service between Punta Gorda and both Fort Myers and Naples. Tickets are on sale now for... Read More.

A small plane headed to Key West for the Christmas holiday crashed Sunday at the end of a runway at a Florida airport, killing five people, authorities said. The twin-engine Cessna 340 crashed shortly... Read More.

The owner of Jetty Jack’s, the snack bar at the South Jetty that’s replacing Anita’s Sandcastle, hopes to be open for business next month. Chris Johnson told the Herald-Tribune he got all the necessary... Read More.

Unemployment inched up in Southwest Florida last month but remains well below last year’s levels. The jobless rate in the Sarasota-Manatee metro area rose from 3.2 percent in October to 3.4 percent in November,... Read More.