Tall mounds of sand lined the sides of a broken Gulf Drive as residents and business owners returned to Anna Maria Island on Saturday morning for the first time since Hurricane Helene. Manatee County ...

Anna Maria Island is the still-hidden jewel of the Sarasota, Florida area. This small barrier island is home to gorgeous, sugar-sand beaches along the Gulf of Mexico, also known as the Gulf of America ...

Nestled in the Gulf of Mexico, Anna Maria Island is seven miles long with wide white sandy beaches and clear turquoise waters with the Gulf of Mexico on one side and Sarasota Bay on the other.

The bone-white, sugary sand whistles underneath my bare feet as I walk along Bean Point, a secluded broad beach dotted with dunes and tucked away on the northern tip of Anna Maria Island. It’s 7:30 in ...

Anna Maria resident Amy Tripp likes vacation rentals, but when it comes to regulating them, she wants it to remain local. So when a bill was filed in the Florida Senate by Sen. Greg Steube that ...

That’s the first question a visitor might ask upon arriving on Anna Maria Island, a delightful enclave on the west coast of Florida, about an hour south of Tampa. United, Spirit and Southwest airlines ...