While the Tampa City Council prepared to meet Thursday for its regular session, one of the city’s most pressing issues — the ...

Crystal River is the place to be to see manatees. Thousands of visitors gather, year after year, to catch a glimpse of the ...

Investigators say Jeffry Knight was operating the boat that collided with the Clearwater Ferry on April 27, 2025. One person ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Hurricane season officially starts June 1, and officials say now is the time to prepare. That means getting ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Emily Geary of “Your Sourdough Girl” has a sourdough starter named Leisel. She came from a buddy on an Austrian baking trip. “They sent her home with a 200-year-old dehydrated ...

Polk County officials have reinstated a burn ban as drought conditions continue across the county. The ban includes unincorporated Polk County and the following municipalities: Auburndale, Bartow, ...

TAMPA, Fla. — USF will host graduation ceremonies and will honor two students who were killed last month. School President Moez Limayem says the university will give posthumous doctoral degres to ...

HAINES CITY, Fla. — With 100 percent of the precincts reporting Tuesday night, Lekia Johnson bested Horace West in a runoff race for the Haines City Commission, Seat 2. Johnson garnered 1,178 votes ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It has been four days since a fire at USF's St. Pete campus engulfed the Marine Science Lab building. The scope of what is lost is still not known. Professor Chuanmin Hu, who ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — St. Petersburg Fire Rescue says they used their boat to pump seawater from the bay to help battle the University of South Florida marine science lab fire that happened over the ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Dozens of firefighters fought to control a fire at the USF St. Pete Campus Marine Science Lab on ...