Cooler weather in Sarasota makes this the perfect time to visit these top spots — before tourist season starts and the crowds ...

Lido Beach, Sarasota’s crown jewel for an affluent beach city, will undergo a $12 million renovation expected to begin construction at the end of this year. Sarasota officials made clear in a ...

Health officials on Friday lifted an advisory for recreation in waters off North Lido Beach because of earlier high bacteria levels that can cause sickness. The Florida Department of Health in ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Later this year, work will begin to renourish a 1.2-mile stretch of Lido Beach. The last renourishment project wrapped up in 2021, but the impacts of hurricanes in the last ...

The sun-bleached ruins of Lido Beach Casino live on in photos, memories - and an enduring sense that Sarasota let something remarkable slip away. Once a symbol of architectural ambition and civic ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday, 911 calls started pouring in from beachgoers at South Lido Beach. “You guys need to get out here ASAP,” said one caller. “We saw the two jet skis ...

Back in 1949, a gaggle of young women ranging in age from 14 to 24 formed a group called the Sarasota Sun-Debs. Participants received basic modeling training and posed for photographs that were then ...