St. Petersburg officials and local legislators have partnered to mitigate the number of vehicles that push floodwaters into otherwise dry homes. A homegrown bill would circumvent...
Chris Steinocher, like many St. Petersburg residents and business owners, is still picking up the pieces after back-to-back hurricanes. He also realizes the importance of community...
St. Petersburg’s nationally acclaimed park system suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Milton, and 11 playgrounds remain closed. The unsung department’s staff has also cleared 28,000 cubic...
Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority drivers completed nearly 570,000 emergency trips before and after Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated the area. The organization celebrated its unsung first...
Over the past three weeks, a local organization dedicated to rescuing the unreachable potentially saved dozens of lives around Tampa Bay and Asheville, North Carolina. Tampa-based...
Dedicating 96 straight hours to preventing the loss of life and property in your community amid horrendous conditions is mentally taxing. Most St. Petersburg Fire Rescue...
Pinellas County officials extended a local state of emergency for seven days Tuesday morning as the area slowly recovers from what Administrator Barry Burton called the...
Pinellas County officials ordered a mandatory Zone A evacuation at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday ahead of what would soon become Hurricane Helene. That encompasses coastal neighborhoods...
Mitigating the opioid epidemic is St. Petersburg-based microNeb’s primary focus. However, a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company believes the medical technology startup’s novel inhaler could eliminate the need...
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody stopped in St. Petersburg to celebrate a “seminal moment” in state law enforcement history Monday. She joined police chiefs from Gulfport...
