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Feature Story In St. Petersburg, Milton toppled a construction crane at The Residences at 400 Central, the city’s tallest building, and ripped the roof off of Tropicana Field.

Milton recovery: Bridges reopen, evacuation orders begin to lift

Christopher CurryThursday, October 10, 2024
After Hurricane Milton battered the Tampa Bay region with high winds and torrential rains, recovery begins.
Feature Story In St. Petersburg, Milton toppled a construction crane at The Residences at 400 Central, the city’s tallest building, and ripped the roof off of Tropicana Field.

Milton recovery: Bridges reopen, evacuation orders begin to lift

Wednesday, October 9, 2024
After Hurricane Milton battered the Tampa Bay region with high winds and torrential rains, recovery begins.
Feature Story Tampa has extended free parking in city-owned garages to protect vehicles during Hurricane Milton through noon Friday.

Reeling from Helene, Tampa Bay braces for Milton

Monday, October 7, 2024
Reeling from Helene, Tampa Bay braces for Milton. Details on evacuation orders, shelters and free paring in city garages to keep vehicles out of floodwaters. 
For Good Greater bird-of-paradise displaying in the top of the rainforest canopy, Aru Islands, Indonesia.

Celebrate the state's birds, wildlife and natural lands at Florida Birding & Nature Festival

Philip MorganWednesday, October 2, 2024
The Florida Birding & Nature Festival returns to Hillsborough County Oct. 17th through Oct. 20th with celebrated wildlife photographer Tim Laman.
Feature Story Bicyclists and joggers move through downtown Tampa during late September's World Car-Free Day. The community focus on pedestrian and bicyclist safety continues with October's Safe Streets Week events

Safe Streets Week: Making roads safer for pedestrians, bicyclists

Philip MorganWednesday, October 2, 2024
Plan Hillsborough, Walk Bike Tampa and other community partners have organized Safe Streets Week to work for solutions that address the significant community issue of pedestrian and bicyclist safety.
Feature Story A pile of flooded, ruined furniture in front of Dave Scheiber's Snell Isle area home.

Helene floodwaters and a flood of family and friends

Dave ScheiberWednesday, October 2, 2024
For Snell Isle resident and longtime area journalist and freelance writer Dave Schreiber and his family, what matters most after Helene is not what they lost, but how much they still have.
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Masthead gallery: Helene's aftermath in Tampa Bay

Carole DevillersWednesday, October 2, 2024
A photo gallery of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Tampa Bay neighborhoods
Feature Story The Ybor City Arts Tour returns to venues like HCC's Gallery114 on Thursday, October 17th.

October arts roundup: Ybor Arts Tour, 10th anniversary SHINE Mural Festival

Christopher CurryMonday, September 30, 2024
The October arts scene in Tampa Bay has the fall Ybor Arts Tour and the 10th anniversary of the SHINE Mural Festival
Feature Story The day after Helene, Feeding Tampa Bay launched food distribution sites in hard-hit areas across Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay nonprofits, community groups mobilize for post-Helene relief and recovery effort

Christopher CurryFriday, September 27, 2024
Across Tampa Bay, nonprofits and community groups mobilize for post-Helene relief and recovery efforts.
Feature Story An update on Hurricane Helene

Hurricane Helene update

Thursday, September 26, 2024
For Good Riders in Tampa's World Car-Free Day roll across Ashley Drive en route to the Encore district downtown, one of the event’s three activity hubs along with Midtown Commons and HCC Ybor Plaza.

Photo story: Tampa's World Car-Free Day

Kimberly DeFalcoWednesday, September 25, 2024
Photos from the second annual Tampa World Car-Free Day, a bike ride to a block party that promotes transportation options.
Innovation News Competitors go head-to-head with their innovative creations at ROBOTICON, which returns to Rithm in North Tampa for a month-long event beginning October 5th.

Get ready for AMRoC Fab Lab ROBOTICON 2024

Joshua McMorrow-HernandezWednesday, September 25, 2024
AmRoC Fab Lab's Roboticon 2024 youth robotics showcase returns to North Tampa from October 5th through November 3rd.
Feature Story Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers.

Kitchen Table Literary Arts: Set up right for a decade

Kiran Malik-KhanWednesday, September 25, 2024
Nonprofit Kitchen Table Literary Arts celebrates a decade of promoting the prose and poetry of Black women and women of color and helping them blossom and flourish as writers.
Feature Story La Segunda Central Bakery's Anthony Ali shapes dough into loaves at the 110-year-old bakery and Tampa institution.

Ybor's La Segunda Central Bakery: 110 years of "pride, history, tradition, love"

Philip MorganWednesday, September 25, 2024
Ybor City's La Segunda Central Bakery has been making Cuban bread the same way for 110 years. Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, the Tampa institution turns out 18,000 to 22,000 loaves a day.
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Masthead Gallery: Tampa Bay Fashion Week 2024 runway shows

Carole DevillersWednesday, September 25, 2024
A photo gallery from the Tampa Bay Fashion Week 2024 runway shows.
Partner Content The reading, art, music and technology programs funded by the Pinellas County Schools Referendum include instructional tools that help reading intervention specialists build skills and confidence in struggling high school students.

Pinellas County Schools Referendum funds reading programs that build student confidence

Christopher CurryTuesday, September 24, 2024
The reading, art, music and technology programs funded by the Pinellas County Schools Referendum include instructional tools that help reading intervention specialists build skills and confidence in struggling high school students.
Development News The beam raising ceremony for The Residences at 400 Central, the tallest building in St. Petersburg and the tallest residential building on Florida's Gulf Coast.

The Residences at 400 Central tops out as St. Pete's tallest building

Philip MorganWednesday, September 18, 2024
The Residences at 400 Central tops out at 515 feet, making it St. Pete's tallest building and the tallest residential building on Florida's Gulf Coast.
Innovation News Tampa's World Car-Free Day returns on Sunday, September 22nd.

Bike, walk, scoot or skate to Tampa's World Car-Free Day

Christopher CurryWednesday, September 18, 2024
After a successful debut in 2023, Tampa's World Car-Free Day returns with a larger event and the same mission, promoting the benefits of transportation options.
Feature Story Retired General Frank McKenzie, the former head of Central Command and current executive director of USF's Global and National Security Institute, talks life, leadership and his new memoir

Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie talks life, leadership and his new book

Pamela VarkonyWednesday, September 18, 2024
Tampa resident and retired General Frank McKenzie, the former head of Central Command, talks life, leadership and his recently published memoir.
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Masthead gallery: Tampa's Westshore district

Carole DevillersWednesday, September 18, 2024
A photo gallery from Tampa's Westshore district.
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