Hurricane Helene caused major damage to many of the best waterfront restaurants in Sarasota and Manatee counties, including one of our region's oldest dining destinations. We’ve begun compiling a list of these restaurants located on or near the water,

Heavy rainfall and severe flooding are hammering inland communities across the Southeast. Hurricane Helene crashed ashore late Thursday night in the Florida Panhandle as one of the strongest hurricane landfalls in American history.

Follow live updates on Helene here. Hurricane Helene forged a devastating path of floods and wind damage after slamming into Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday night, submerging much of the state’s Gulf Coast before continuing its destructive march through Georgia and into the mountains of Appalachia.