The new Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which opened in 1987, was built with safety in mind, with features meant to make navigating in and out of Tampa Bay easier for large ships and to lower the risk ...

What those covering the Key Bridge collapse can learn from reports about the 1980 Skyway disaster The journalism about Florida's Skyway disaster is full of lessons for those who are now called ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Friday marks 45 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy. On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck a support column of the old bridge during the morning rush hour. Six ...

Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse early Tuesday morning was an eerie reminder of the deadly 1980 Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster in Tampa Bay.

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is seen on Tuesday in St. Petersburg. Among the more notable bridge collapses in the U.S. was that of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Florida’s Tampa Bay on May 9 ...

Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge will not be displaying rainbow lights this year and will instead be lit with red, white, and blue lights for over three months. The bridge, which serves as a ...

More than four decades before a freighter hit Baltimore’s Key Bridge, a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway bridge in St. Petersburg, Fla., killing 35.

Mark Luther, director of the USF Center for Maritime and Port Studies, said the Sunshine Skyway collapse in 1980 led to innovations for bridge protection that were not present at the Francis Scott ...

The shocking collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning gives people in the Bay Area some frightening flashbacks to another disaster.

Today is the 43rd anniversary of the Sunshine Skyway bridge disaster. On this day in 1980 the freighter Summit Venture struck the bridge that joined St. Petersburg and Bradenton during a ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Friday marks 45 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy. On May 9, 1980, a freighter struck a support column of the old bridge during the morning rush hour. Six ...