The manatee swam up to her kayak while she was observing in in a channel off Bayou Texar; In 2024, there were over 150 manatee sightings reported in the Perdido Bay Watershed and more than 50 in ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Effective Thursday, March 6, Manatee County's School Speed Zone Camera Program will end. The Manatee County Board of County Commissioners voted 5-2 to end the program ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Starting Thursday, drivers are no longer receiving tickets from school zone speed detection cameras in most of Manatee County. During Tuesday’s board meeting ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — A Manatee County teacher was charged after she sent an explicit photo to one of her 14-year-old students, deputies said. According to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office ...

Manatee County launched its school zone traffic camera program in August with support of many who aim to improve safety for school children, educators and their families.

As a result, nearly 2,000 manatees starved to death. “Biologists had never seen anything like it,” Jason recalls. “That was really when I first started thinking about manatees as part of a project.” A ...

Red-light cameras are no more in Manatee County, but officials warn that the end of the program does not give motorists the green light to break traffic laws. Manatee County Commissioners decided ...

A Manatee County Sheriff’s Office news release said a 14-year-old Carlos E. Haile Middle School student told deputies that he was communicating with a teacher, Oliver Fell, 28, over Snapchat.

Conservation success story: a manatee with its calf in Florida A manatee and its calf drift underwater in Hunter Springs, Florida. An algal bloom in the area had caused a decline in the eelgrass ...

— Manatee County Government (@ManateeGov) October 25, 2022. The contract between the county and red light camera vendor, Conduent, expired at midnight on Oct. 15.

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Wednesday is the last day school speed zone enforcement cameras will be used in Manatee County. County commissioners voted to end the enforcement of the cameras.