Anna Maria Island -- located midway between Sarasota and Tampa, but a world apart from either – continues to recover from ...

Manatee County Government announced that an Anna Maria Island beach has reopened after taking significant damage from back-to-back hurricanes. When Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on the island ...

Anna Maria Island is connected with the mainland via Cortez Bridge to the south and Manatee Bridge to the north. Free parking is widely available, including in the multi-storey car park in the centre ...

The hard-hit area includes Bradenton Beach, the city of Anna Maria and Holmes Beach ... for Manatee County but set a sunrise-to-sunset curfew for its island cities, where residents remained ...