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

Imagine growing up along the shores of Sarasota’s Phillippi Creek, back in the more bucolic 1950s and ’60s, in a house ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The hopes of Phillippi Creek advocates to have any lowering of the stream bed completed before hurricane season begins in earnest are pretty much dead. They were not happy with the news.

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.

We live on Phillippi Creek, just north of Bee Ridge Road. We have lived in this particular house since 1998 and on the creek since 1979.Our house had 6 inches of creek water in it as a result of ...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Sarasota County Commissioners have directed staff to expedite efforts to prepare Phillippi Creek for the upcoming storm season, focusing on critical flood control ...