The number of single family home sales in Sarasota County increased by 8.3 percent between April 2016 and last month, while Manatee County experienced a 1.5 percent increase.
Eighty-eight percent of small business owners are optimistic about the near-term outlook on the national economy, according to the latest survey results published as part of the PNC Economic Outlook.
The Science and Environment Council of Southwest Florida recently launched a new organization, the Climate Council of Sarasota-Manatee, to create a network of experts and practitioners working on climate change.
Sarasota County was recently ranked third in health outcomes and second in health factors in the state of Florida in a new listing released by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton region ranked as the country's 10th fastest-growing metropolitan area between mid-2015 and mid-2016, according to data released Thursday by the United States Census Bureau.
Median sales prices for homes increased in February, while sales of single-family homes remained relatively flat, according to new data released by Florida Realtors on Wednesday.
The Minimally Invasive ENT/Open Forum 2017 medical education conference runs from Thursday, March 16, to Saturday, March 18, at Sarasota's Hyatt Regency.
The median sales price for Sarasota County single family homes increased to $250,000 in January, while the median in Manatee County increased to $279,000.
America's gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to numbers released Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Between 2010 and 2015, the percentage of Floridians lacking health insurance declined from 21.3 percent to 13.3 percent and almost 1.6 million Floridians gained health care coverage.
Mote Marine Laboratory recently entered the final stages of construction on its new coral research facility in the Florida Keys and remains on schedule to open the center in the spring.