Siesta Key, FL

A small nip on Siesta Key Beach turned into a serious medical scare for ABC7 weekend anchor Ellie Davis. While covering a Girl Scout cleanup, she felt something bite her foot, and by the next day her right foot had swelled to nearly three times its size and she had lost feeling in three toes.…

Saturday delivers the kind of beach weather Suncoast locals wait all year for: sunny skies, low 80s, and Gulf water running from 76 degrees at the northern beaches to a comfortable 80 at Siesta Key. Surf is minimal at a foot or less, which makes for easy wading and swimming. The one wrinkle is the…

Retirement on the Suncoast often looks like morning walks on Siesta Key, season tickets to the arts, and a calendar built around spring training. For a growing number of local grandparents, it also looks like school pickup lines and homework help. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, more than two million grandparents nationwide are…

If you’ve spent any time at Siesta Key Oyster Bar, you’ve seen the walls and ceiling covered in signed dollar bills. That tradition started in 2003 as a promise to local fishermen, and over the years it turned into a collection of memories from visitors all over the world. Then Hurricane Milton flooded the restaurant…

Sarasota County, pending final signatures, is now the owner of three non-buildable beachfront lots as part of a decades-long dispute over beachgoers trespassing on the property.The three lots, which are adjacent to a Beach Access 3 as an extension of Columbus Boulevard, have an appraised value of approximately $90,000. To avoid a costly, protracted legal battle in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the Sarasota County Commission voted 4-1, with Mark Smith opposed, on Se