Saint Petersburg FL

TAMPA, Fla. – If you stepped outside early Thursday morning, you likely noticed the damp pavement and a biting chill that felt more like the Carolinas than the Gulf Coast. A band of showers moved through the area before 8:00 AM, leaving behind a thick layer of clouds and a brisk west-northwest wind.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — To Mia Morrison, 5, the rooms on the seventh floor of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital have become almost a second bedroom. She is comfortable here, even though this is where she gets ongoing cancer treatments. “Mia is actually on a clinical trial right now...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A new affordable housing community is coming to St. Petersburg’s Warehouse Arts District, and city leaders say a state law designed to speed up housing development helped make it possible. The Fairfield Avenue Apartments — a 264-unit community — officially broke ground Wednesday on...

Sunshine Ace Hardware’s annual holiday roundup campaign raised $56,489, pushing the company’s cumulative fundraising total for Children’s Miracle Network above $500,000. Throughout November and December, customers and Sunshine Ace Hardware stores in Collier, Lee, Charlotte and Pinellas counties joined those at...

A suspected jewelry store burglar has been arrested and another is on the run after a heist at Old Northeast Jewelers. According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, Savon Hunter and another suspect used a sledgehammer to break into the jewelry store around 2 a.m. on January 28. Hunter has...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA)— A home in St. Petersburg was set on fire deliberately, the St. Petersburg Police Department announced. According to officers, SPPD got a call to investigate a fire at the 3000 block of Jackson Street North around 8:48 a.m. Tuesday. Investigators at the scene said the home sustained...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The St. Petersburg Police Department released a video, asking for the public’s help identifying the two men involved in a physical altercation on the 1600 block of Central Avenue on Nov. 1. At 2 a.m., a group of men walked on Central Avenue when they were approached by two unknown […]

PINELLAS PARK — On Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at approximately 3:10 p.m., the Pinellas Park Police Department responded to a motor vehicle crash on 66th Street south of 126th Avenue. The crash involved a Nissan Rogue and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. The motorcycle rider, David Joseph Lecher, 64, was transported...

TERRA CEIA, Fla. - Manatee County leaders are speaking out after what they describe as harassment and threats aimed at county employees and their families over a proposed cruise terminal near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. In a statement released Wednesday, County Administrator Charlie Bishop said staff members have...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Mayor Ken Welch on Tuesday will see all nine proposals for developing the 86-acre historic Gas Plant District. Ark Ellison Horus and Kettler was the first group to file a proposal, and since then, more have come in. They are from Foundation Vision Partners, Freedom Communities Company, Logical...