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A serendipitous eBay purchase led to a University of South Florida professor discovering a new phosphorus material in its solid form for the first time on...
Plans to restore the St. Petersburg Municipal Marina have resurfaced after years of debate over control, selection process, contract length and a developer unpopular with many...
Local leaders and developers turned dirt Friday morning at 9575 Seminole Blvd. – a site Pinellas County officials purchased over a decade ago that will now...
Like much of the city and state, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg’s waterfront campus is uniquely susceptible to climate change effects, particularly rising sea...
New statistics showing development, housing costs, relocation and remote work data vividly illustrate how housing in St. Petersburg has drastically changed in recent years. Numbers, as...
In November 2022, local school officials decided to address the workforce housing shortage by transforming a 99-year-old building overlooking St. Petersburg’s Mirror Lake into homes for...
The Cross Bay Ferry has now made the trip between St. Petersburg and Tampa a little less stressful, and significantly more scenic, for over 300,000 passengers....
As the new College of Business Dean, Emmanuel Hernandez-Agosto is applying his longtime expertise in developing incubators and student programming to St. Petersburg College. “In less...
Former St. Petersburg city council member and mayoral candidate Robert Blackmon’s dreams of converting a 97-year-old Standard Oil service station into a coffee shop are one...
A recently released study builds on previous research and leaves no doubt that Florida’s fish have a drug problem. Local anglers and researchers from Florida International...
