Vacation planning often comes with a familiar challenge: where will we eat? Finding spots that satisfy everyone’s cravings ...

The vacation rental management company Vacasa and Island Real Estate of Anna Maria Island, Inc. recently entered into a partnership that will bring Vacasa’s services, such as booking technology, to ...

Mike Norman Realty was opened in 1978 and over the years has become a leader in Anna Maria Island property sales and vacation beach rentals. With the help of his daughters, Sally and Marianne, this ...

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 ...

With average lodging costing $294 per night, Anna Maria Island ranked as Florida’s most expensive spring destination in a recent survey. Tiffany Tompkins [email protected] With lodging costing ...

Anna Maria Island, that seven-mile stretch of beautiful white-sand beaches, lively seafood restaurants and tiki bars (some of them literally perched on the sand), fishing piers, souvenir shops and mom ...

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 ...

When James and Amy Bezet moved from Louisiana to Florida in 2002, they bought a home in Lakewood Ranch and began searching for a place where they and their four children and their families could ...

Anna Maria Island residents have been following a bill Sen. Greg Steube filed regarding vacation rentals. Herald file photo [email protected] A state Senate committee has significantly altered a ...

Authorities are urging tourists and visitors to postpone any beach plans until after Anna Maria Island and Sarasota County beaches recover from the disaster caused by Hurricane Helene. Many tourists ...

Hurricane Milton heavily damaged homes on Bradenton Beach, Florida, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. Anna Maria Island was still closed to the public on Friday and was scheduled to reopen Saturday. Tiffany ...