I’ve heard some bad ideas in my nearly 30 years reporting for the Tampa Bay Times, but sticking a convention center at the ...

When the Orlando Sentinel started investigating the payments, the DeSantis administration sent a threatening, unsigned ...

Residents in Forest Hills weren’t expecting to flood last year, but are still recovering after city infrastructure failed.

The grant program, funded by the International Game Fish Association’s Worldwide Anglers Relief Fund, opens on July 26 and ...

The owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers created the Glazer Family Small Business Fund after the 2024 hurricanes hit Florida to help organizations impacted by the storms. The fund is currently accepting ...

The Venice Municipal Fishing Pier is 720 feet long. Originally built in 1966 for nearly $134,000, it has been rebuilt twice — in 1984 after a 1981 storm, and in 2004 it was replaced for $1.75 million, ...

A medium-sized convention space has long been discussed as a need on this side of the bay,” writes Mayor Kenneth T. Welch.

When Kimberlee Hickok was planning her wedding, she wanted it to be in Tampa. “My now husband, his parents live in Tampa Palms and his dad’s health makes it so that he’s unable to travel,” said Hickok ...

Part of the projects will be hurricane hardening to withstand a 15 feet of storm surge, but they won't be finished until at least next year.

Forest Hills was heavily impacted during Hurricane Milton despite being in flood zone X. At the time, city officials ...

The events are designed to help Bay area residents — many of whom are still recovering from Helene and Milton — get ready for the 2025 storm season.

There's a new effort underway in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties to get help to people who are still recovering from last ...