ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. — With new improved sanitation protocols in place, dozens of vacation rental property owners and managers on Anna Maria Island are pushing to get their properties back ...

In 2014, the Manatee County tax collector’s office raked in $4.9 million in Tourist Development Taxes generated by rentals on Anna Maria Island. Back in 2007, the county collected just $1.4 million.

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 ...

That’s the first question a visitor might ask upon arriving on Anna Maria Island, a delightful enclave on the west coast of Florida, about an hour south of Tampa. United, Spirit and Southwest ...

Anna Maria Island . 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 ...

S ugar-white beaches and aqua blue waters have drawn sun seekers to Anna Maria Island for more than a century. Yet, the seven-mile-long barrier island off the coast of Bradenton, Florida, seems to ...

Anna Maria Island is ranked #4 out of 12 ... Off-street parking is permitted so long as there ... Siesta Beach has two concession stands, a playground, chair and umbrella rentals, and ...