Low-lying areas around Pinellas County – including St. Petersburg’s Shore Acres neighborhood, the City of Gulfport and beach communities – are already experiencing flooding Thursday morning...
In August 2023, Hurricane Idalia’s roughly four-foot storm surge inundated the Pinellas County peninsula. Local officials expect significantly worse conditions Thursday. County Commissioners held an emergency...
Community Foundation Tampa Bay has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support ongoing disaster relief efforts, and increase the resiliency...
A family in St. Petersburg’s flood-prone Shore Acres neighborhood recently received the city’s blessing to transform a .35-acre, single-family lot into two parcels with elevated homes....
A bipartisan trio of state legislators hope to resolve a longstanding impasse between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and property owners delaying the renourishment of...
As 2023 comes to a close, it is time to look back at some of the local stories that catalyzed community conversations and dominated political discourse...
A new $15 million state grant will help Pinellas County officials pay for an ongoing $37 million emergency dune restoration project. However, some coastal communities refuse...
Emergency sand dune construction is nearing completion in coastal areas hit hardest by Hurricane Idalia’s storm surge, despite beachgoers trampling freshly planted vegetation critical to stabilizing...
Tampa-based insurtech firm Slide Insurance may acquire up to 86,000 Florida homeowners policies from Farmers Insurance. The acquisition follows Farmers Insurance’s ongoing plan to reduce its...
Tampa-based property and casualty insurer Heritage Insurance Holdings Inc. anticipates seeing $40 million in net retained losses in connection with recent natural disaster events. The insurer,...
