The University of South Florida will soon have a new leader, as President Rhea Law announced her impending retirement Monday. Her successor will inherit a long-planned...
St. Petersburg government and business leaders welcomed counterparts from Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic to the city Feb. 13 in a show of solidarity amid...
St. Petersburg officials unanimously agree that residents deserve more protection from falling tower cranes during extreme weather events. However, state preemption handcuffs those efforts. Local lawmakers...
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)...