A County flood project was halted by federal regulators. Public Works Director Spencer Anderson has caught much of the ...

For years, homeowners living near Phillippi Creek warned Sarasota County the sediment-choked waterway needed dredging, then ...

Hurricane season is here, yet one project many Sarasota residents anticipated to help cur flooding this year won't be ...

Residents discovered a memo from the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers that appears to show Sarasota County could get around ...

Two brothers and two friends take on and wi, an 80-mile Atlantic paddleboard challenge in an effort to provide support for ...

Sarasota County public work's director said there is a plan and funds ready for dredging, but the U.S Army Corps of Engineers ...

Sarasota County's bid for an emergency dredging project on Phillippi Creek was denied by federal officials; advocates say ...

Officials have since identified “Dredging of Phillippi Creek” as a standalone project. It was initially to receive $60 million from the first draft of the grant spending plan. Another category ...

SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — In March, Sarasota County commissioners directed staff to pursue an emergency dredging project for ...

Phillippi Creek itself is one of Sarasota County's central arteries. It stretches from Little Sarasota Bay, through the Mennonite communities off Beneva Road, and southeast past Interstate 75.

But on June 24, Phillippi Creek dredging advocates learned that the Corps had denied the emergency permit. Instead, the county will have to wait for a more extensive six- to eight-month federal ...

For years, homeowners living near Phillippi Creek warned Sarasota County the sediment-choked waterway needed dredging, then ...