Carter Weinhofer is the Longboat Key news reporter for the Observer. Originally from a small town in Pennsylvania, he moved ...

Power restoration, water service bring some relief to Longboat Key, struck by two hurricanes in less than a month.

Public beach access point, power, mail and debris pickups. WATER: Boil Water Advisory has been rescinded Locations may ...

Reed Savidge and his wife, Ginny, have owned and operated Ace Hardware stores on Longboat Key for over 37 years. Over that ...

One brought a devastating storm surge, another’s winds added to the destruction. Longboat Key officials weigh in on what ...

The U.S. Coast Guard says a life jacket, emergency position indicating locator beacon and a cooler likely saved the life of a ...

The captain was instructed Wednesday night to put his boat in an emergency position as conditions were deteriorating due to ...

The Sandpiper Inn on Longboat Key was hit hard by flooding during Hurricane Helene, leaving the owners little choice but to ...

The U.S. Coast Guard Thursday rescued a men found clinging to a cooler in the water off Florida's Longboat Key in the ...

A Coast Guard Air Station Miami helicopter crew rescued a man, Thursday, approximately 30 miles off Longboat Key following Hurricane Milton.

Reed Savidge and his wife, Ginny, have owned and operated Ace Hardware stores on Longboat Key for over 37 years. Over that time, they have never filed an insurance claim for anything − until ...

A Coast Guard Air Station Miami helicopter crew rescued a man, Thursday, approximately 30 miles off Longboat Key following Hurricane Milton. The aircrew brought the man to Tampa General Hospital for ...