What started as a suspicious death in North Port has now been ruled a homicide. On Tuesday morning, police were called to a home in the 2400 block of Roxbury Circle. There, they found... Read More.

What started as a suspicious death in North Port has now been ruled a homicide. On Tuesday morning, police were called to a home in the 2400 block of Roxbury Circle. There, they found... Read More.

Even as cities like Venice vote to ban medical marijuana dispensaries entirely, North Port appears set to welcome the businesses in with open arms. Earlier this week, the City Commission unanimously approved its latest... Read More.

Allegiant yesterday launched yet another new route from the Charlotte County Airport yesterday. Service from Punta Gorda to Providence, RI began yesterday and will continue to operate twice a week. Next Friday, the airline... Read More.

Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will be running tests this weekend on a new bloom of green algae that has popped up in Lemon Bay. Charlotte County referred the matter... Read More.

Opening statements were heard yesterday in the trial of former Sarasota County Deputy Frank Bybee. The 37-year old Bybee is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an elderly woman and then trying to... Read More.

Venice-based Agape Flights is taking more than 21,000 pounds of goods from the Suncoast over to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. The nonprofit received a large donation from the Midwest Food Bank of diapers, paper towels... Read More.

Three North American river otters were released Wednesday in Punta Gorda, Florida after nearly eight months in care at the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife in Sanibel. The orphaned otters spent nearly eight... Read More.