Clearwater FL

Pasco County’s Office of Disaster Recovery and Resources is accepting applications for the Better Future Individual Housing Program. The program helps residents repair, rebuild, or replace homes damaged by Hurricanes Idalia, Helene, and Milton. It now covers more people who are still displaced. Residents can apply...

TAMPA, Fla. – Two Tampa Bay area men are behind bars facing high bonds after investigators say they tracked them from the Florida Keys to a storage unit in Tampa, uncovering a haul of stolen firearms and family treasures. Authorities in Hillsborough County arrested Carlos A. Cortes Pedraza, 53,...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – Detectives are investigating the death of a 56-year-old inmate who collapsed just minutes after returning to the Pinellas County Jail from a hospital visit late Wednesday night. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Matthew Marchione was pronounced dead at 11:01 p.m. on December 3, less than...

A U.S. military operation directed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth intercepted and destroyed a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday, leaving four people dead. The strike, carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear, marks the 22nd such engagement under Hegseth’s command and pushes...

An estate with 10,291 square feet of living space at 320 Park Street S., St. Petersburg has entered the market with a list price of $3.995 million. The 0.95-acre property is situated within the Pasadena corridor and adjacent to the Jungle Prada district. Completed in 1925, the two-building property once...

The once busy and bustling downtown area of Clearwater was a ghost town for years.

JENSEN BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) – After a months-long manhunt, authorities arrested four men in connection with multiple mall heists resulting in hundreds of pairs of stolen high-end shoes worth almost $1 million dollars. Investigators said the burglars spent hours in Jensen Beach cutting through a concrete roof before...

Carrie Elizabeth “Bette” Davis Wimbish was born in 1924 in Perry, Florida, and grew up during a time when segregation shaped nearly every part of daily life. Despite the limits set around her, she developed a steady sense of purpose that guided her throughout her life. Education became her road forward, and she...

St. Petersburg City Council members voted unanimously Thursday to sell the former Science Center building to St. Pete for STEAM LLC, marking a new chapter for the facility.

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A Clearwater man was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries Tuesday evening after losing control of a Peterbilt truck on the Bayside Bridge. The crash happened shortly after 5:00 p.m. in the southbound lanes, just south of Drew Street. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the...