Residents in Siesta Key returned to the island on Thursday following powerful Hurricane Milton moving through.

Hurricane Milton was only hours away from landfall Wednesday night in Florida’s Gulf Coast, and there were already reports of tornadoes.

Time is running out for residents in the Sarasota County area to either get out or hunker down.

Still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Helene, people on Florida's west coast are being forced to prepare for another powerful storm as Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall by Wednesday.

A 54-year-old convicted felon wanted in Sarasota County was awaiting extradition behind bars on Saturday in Miami-Dade County.

An endangered sawfish rescued last month in the Florida Keys after it was spotted acting erratically and swimming in circles has died as wildlife officials continue to search for what is causing fish to become distressed.

A 30-year-old woman, who is from Illinois and lives in the Sarasota area, was facing charges on Saturday in Monroe County.

A Miami man is facing charges in Sarasota County after authorities said he went there to steal catalytic converters and ended up killing a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run crash.

A co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty group could move a step closer to getting ousted from a Florida school board on Tuesday, as she is embroiled in the fallout of a sexual assault investigation into her husband, the Republican Party state chairman.

A woman is $1 million richer after playing the $5 Monopoly Doubler scratch-off game, the Florida Lottery announced this week.

The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness advisory after four locally contracted cases of malaria were reported along the Gulf Coast south of Tampa.

A Sarasota woman claimed a $1 million prize playing the 50X The Cash holiday edition scratch-off game, the Florida Lottery confirmed Monday.

A Florida man is $5 million richer after claiming the top prize for a Lottery scratch-off game.

Police say the bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida's Gulf Coast.

A Florida man won $1 million playing the Mega Millions game, and claimed his prize this week, Florida Lottery officials confirmed Thursday.

A 62-year-old Illinois woman claimed her $1 million winnings this week after playing the 300X The Cash scratch-off game, Florida Lottery officials confirmed Friday.

Trustees picked by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee New College of Florida voted Tuesday to abolish its small office that handles diversity, equity and inclusion programs targeted by conservatives throughout the state university system.

The New College of Florida board of trustees — now dominated by conservatives chosen by Gov. Ron DeSantis — voted Monday to approve hiring a DeSantis ally as the interim president.

A 55-year-old man won a whopping $1 million playing the 500X The Cash scratch-off game, Florida Lottery officials confirmed this week.

The Florida Medical Examiners Commission announced on Friday that Hurricane Ian killed 144 people in 19 counties.

A Sarasota man is behind bars facing charges for allegedly selling LSD to an 11-year-old.

Hurricane Ian's most damaging winds began hitting Florida's southwest coast Wednesday, lashing the state with heavy rain and pushing a devastating storm surge after strengthening to the threshold of the most dangerous Category 5 status.

We’re now hearing from a Florida man who survived an alligator attack, but lost his arm in the process.

A Florida man and his daughter are facing felony charges after a video posted to social media showed them burning a raccoon alive in a dumpster, according to authorities.

A Florida man awoke to find a man sharpening a machete with a baseball bat in his bedroom Thursday morning, leading deputies to shoot and kill the man after he stabbed one of them.

Two alligators attacked and killed an elderly woman after she fell into a pond at a southwest Florida golf course Friday.

A Florida judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit in which the parents of Gabby Petito claim that Brian Laundrie told his parents he had killed her before he returned home alone from their western trip.

Florida deputies responded to calls of a driver seen driving on a Sarasota County sidewalk to avoid rush hour traffic.