Red tide is still bloom along the Florida Gulf coast, but Sarasota and Manatee County beaches are currently in the clear.

The proliferations have become increasingly common in recent years and can have health and economic impacts in affected areas ...

Heading to the beach for Valentine ... in the Gulf of America — formerly called the Gulf of Mexico in the U.S. — as far back as the 1700s and along Florida's Gulf Coast since the 1840s ...