Brooke Walters tells her students at Sarasota High School that a big part of success in life is knowing the rules and then following them. The veteran Spanish teacher sees herself very much as a rule ...

Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office will no longer increase a homesteaded property's taxable value for routinely replacing a roof after two homeowners successfully challenged the ...

I can fully understand Joseph McCarthy’s frustration about his fully homesteaded property losing the Save Our Homes protection simply because he replaced his aging roof (“Sarasota retiree hits the ...

Property owners who suffered damage from Hurricane Debby may be entitled to reductions in their property taxes, according to an email from Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office.

Florida homeowners have increasingly been forced by insurance companies to replace their roofs under threat of huge spikes in premiums — that is, if they can get coverage at all. At the same time, in ...

Sarasota County officials are slated to present a plan to county commissioners on Tuesday to buy a parcel downtown that would eventually be the site of a new Criminal Justice Center. The only problem ...

Sarasota County will spend about $1.7 million to connect Pocono Trail Preserve with a 1-acre land acquisition along Dona Bay. The county will pay about $1.475 million for the land, with the rest of ...