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With the hurricane season underway, new evacuation zones impacting nearly 93,000 people, and residents keeping a close eye on a tropical disturbance in the gulf last...
New pet retail stores – those that sell dogs and/or cats – will not be welcomed in Pinellas County, thanks to a new ban. Pinellas County...
Representing just the second partnership of its kind in Florida, Pinellas County Schools (PCS) and the YMCA of Greater St. Petersburg have officially broken ground on...
St. Petersburg Sen. Jeff Brandes believes the recently signed property insurance bill could mitigate many of Florida’s problems – if the Legislature passed it in 2019....
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, linking Pinellas and Manatee counties, is notorious as one of the country’s worst suicide destinations, as hundreds of people have historically jumped...
For Bruce Bussey, Pinellas County – and by proxy, St. Petersburg – exhausting its emergency rental assistance funding is bittersweet, although probably more bitter than sweet....
The four-mile 4th Street North corridor, known for being the site of hundreds of crashes over the years, will see major changes to address the existing...
State funding for the University of South Florida’s proposed Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences Research and Teaching Facility (EOS) seemed like a done deal until one stroke...
With 267,944 people calling unincorporated Pinellas home, it would constitute the county’s largest municipality if it were a city – more than doubling the population of...
Applause was heard outside of City Hall as St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch hoisted the city’s Pride flag, marking the start of Pride month. “We are...
