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After weeks of speculation and rumors, the University of South Florida officially introduced Alex Golesh as the team’s sixth head coach Monday. He formerly served as...
Alison Amick was on a business trip in Atlanta the day a global pandemic caused the country to shut down in March 2020. The St. Petersburg...
Clearwater’s popular Beach Walk promenade, connecting businesses along the waterfront, will be getting a facelift. The nearly $30 million project runs from South Gulfview Boulevard to...
Siegrid Pregartner and Laura Borgerding are quick to note they are non-traditional pharmacology doctoral students; Pregartner is an Army veteran and mother of two, while Borgerding...
The City of St. Petersburg has received four proposals in response to the Historic Gas Plant District request for proposals (RFP). The proposals were submitted by...
Thursday’s city council meeting was a mixed bag for St. Petersburg tenants and their advocates. Council members unanimously approved codifying the city’s withdrawal from Pinellas County’s...
While military veterans often possess unique skills applicable to civilian employment, many find the transition challenging. Officials with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), the...
As the deadline approaches this week for vying developers to submit their proposals reimagining the 86-acre Tropicana Field and Gas Plant District, the city has yet...
Four years after forming a Resiliency Coalition that includes 32 area governments and over 90 private partners, the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council (TBRPC) has released...
In between teaching computer science and engineering, Professor Sriram Chellappan spent the last several years brainstorming ideas that could help protect people wrongly accused of crimes....
