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St. Petersburg Fire Rescue and Police K-9 units will soon move out of a dilapidated training facility that was once a dumping ground into a new,...
Pinellas County tourism officials recently held an impromptu, off-agenda discussion regarding the ongoing quest to build a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in downtown St. Petersburg....
With over 800 people migrating to Florida every day, coupled with the Tampa Bay area’s rising notoriety among the best places to work and live, local...
The St. Petersburg Police Department has received dozens of sextortion reports – often involving teen boys and perpetrated by organized crime rings – that cost residents...
University of South Florida St. Petersburg nursing students could soon move from the adjacent port’s ramshackle rooms into nearby state-of-the-art facilities inside Johns Hopkins All Children’s...
While St. Petersburg’s MLK Dream Big Weekend does not fill local hotels like the four-day Reggae Rise Up music festival, it will now receive the same...
For Ray Roa, editor-in-chief at Creative Loafing Tampa, the weekly publication’s recent acquisition is akin to lyrics immortalized by rock legends The Who: “Meet the new...
After nearly 18 years, the wait is over; St. Petersburg residents living on the city’s southside have a Kahwa Coffee shop. Chris Steinocher, president of the...
Florida’s first advanced collegiate program designed to help first responders overcome internal and external mental health challenges now has a home in St. Petersburg. As Sasha...
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Agency has been ranked among the most Outstanding Public Transportation Systems in the nation. This week, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA),...
