While many anglers went to the bridge to fish for dinner or bonding time with family, other memories were made by meeting new ...

A stretch of Skyway Fishing Pier State Park on the Manatee County side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is shutting down indefinitely. The Florida State Parks website, run by the Florida Department of ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol troopers are investigating after finding a man dead at one of the Skyway Fishing Piers. Troopers responded to the south side of the pier on I-275 around 4:20 a.m.

When the original Sunshine Skyway bridge opened in 1954, it was given a 50-year life span. A second bridge, built in 1969 and opened in 1971 to allow double the cars, was given a similar lifespan.

The man was found inside a SUV parked on the pier at the southern end of the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Tony Marrero is the criminal justice and breaking news reporter. Reach him at [email protected] ...

Angel Cruz frequents the Skyway Fishing Pier almost every day. He has discovered a few casts in the water could always produce a lifetime memory. With this in mind, he enjoys the quiet relaxing time ...

Local rescue groups are working daily to save pelicans injured or killed near the Skyway fishing pier, where hooks and fishing lines entangle dozens of seabirds each week.

The entrance to the south Skyway fishing pier runs alongside Interstate 275 in Manatee County in this September 2024 Bradenton Herald file photo. Tiffany Tompkins [email protected] A stretch of ...