St. Petersburg will receive over $160 million to storm-harden facilities, support businesses and assist residents still reeling from Hurricanes Helene and Milton. However, it could take...
An administrative proposal to bolster arts funding would have required eliminating five new city positions. Meanwhile, officials plan to spend $725,000 celebrating the St. Pete Pier’s...
In July, several local union representatives pleaded with city council members to appeal a court ruling that nullified St. Petersburg’s apprenticeship and disadvantaged worker ordinances. That...
Receiving $7.2 million in state grants will bolster St. Petersburg College’s efforts to develop new advanced manufacturing programs. It will also help kids in South St....
St. Petersburg City Council members are now scrambling to save any aspects of three ordinances supporting apprentices and marginalized trade workers. City officials and community leaders...
Tommy Whitehead grew up poor – in capital letters, he said – in rural Polk County. St. Petersburg mayor Ken Welch recently invited him to participate...
Pinellas County is home to nearly 24,000 known short-term vacation rentals, and elected officials have found it increasingly difficult to regulate a now sophisticated and nuanced...
For the second time in three years, the University of South Florida did not receive state funding for an $80 million Environmental and Oceanographic Sciences (EOS)...
Eckerd College’s student reporters have recently received an influx of state and national recognition, despite competing against larger schools with dedicated journalism programs. In August 2023,...
Years of work to establish and enhance local renter protections is now all for naught due to a recently enacted state law. The St. Petersburg City...
