The Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapse is one of the most tragic and haunting bridge disasters in U.S. history. On May 9, 1980, a freighter collided with a support pier during a violent storm, causing a ...

Pride Month supporters marched on the Acosta Bridge and lit it with handheld rainbow lights as FDOT prevents Pride display ...

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 ...

Hornbuckle, a self-proclaimed Florida cracker ... Hornbuckle knows the Sunshine Skyway Bridge well. He drives across it three times a week. “I saw a flatbed truck in front of me carrying ...

FDOT recently changed its policy on lighting to honor only official holidays and limit it to red, white and blue.

But the safety measures put in place with the new bridge might not have happened without one man — former Florida governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham. Graham had only been the Sunshine State's ...

Robert Raiola was still teaching Michael Betz the ropes: Betz had started as an inspection diver with the Florida ... Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987. The standing wreckage from the old bridge ...

A maintenance construction project will be underway at the South Sunshine Skyway Fishing Pier Roadway, starting June 9. Crews ...

ABOVE: View archive video from the aftermath of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapseTuesday's Baltimore bridge collapse may remind many Floridians of a similar disaster that happened decades ago in ...

is drawing tragic comparisons to a similar bridge collapse in Florida 44 years ago. On the morning of May 9, 1980, a freighter slammed into the support columns of the old Sunshine Skyway bridge ...

Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses, rescue operations underway The incident brings back memories of a similar incident that happened in Florida when a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway bridge in 1980.