Saint Petersburg FL

Pinellas County Urban Forestry is giving away free trees to residents on Saturday, April 18, from 9–11 a.m. at 4550 126th Ave N, Clearwater. This is a drive-thru event, and each household can receive up to two trees while supplies last. Trees come in three-gallon containers and are about five feet tall. Available...

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. — More than one month into the long-awaited dredging project in John’s Pass, the city of Madeira Beach confirms the contractor is only about 20% complete. A spokesperson for the city said it’s a “slow process” as the contractor, Bayside Dredging, works to pull roughly...

What are the odds? Two of country music’s top female artists of the 1990s performing on the same day, on different stages, just a few miles from each other?. It happens Saturday (March 21), when Lorrie Morgan headlines the City of Pinellas Park’s Country in the Park at England Brothers Park. And in Largo, Suzy...

The 2027 edition of The Ocean Race—the storied round-the-world crewed raced that has previously been sailed as the Whitbread and the Volvo Ocean Race—announced its new route will take the fleet of IMOCA 60 monohulls to North America with a May stopover in St. Petersburg, Florida. This, race...

In the future, St. Petersburg may join other Florida municipalities like Tampa and Orlando and become the home of a convention center. The City is taking steps to determine the long-term impacts of building a facilty downtown. Mayor Ken Welch and the St. Petersburg government began to accept proposals for...

Webull, the trading app that once occupied two floors on Wall Street, has quietly traded the canyons of Manhattan for the palm trees of St. Petersburg, staking its global headquarters at 200 Carillon Parkway. Company leaders insist this was not just a tax play. They describe it as a bet on local talent, quality of...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A master plan for the Port of St. Petersburg was released last Thursday which reimagines the four acres of waterfront property with a park, cruise terminal and marine repair facility. “It was definitely overdue for a new look and perspective at what we do with...

A deadly crash brought traffic in north St. Petersburg to a grinding halt today, shutting down the busy intersection of 38th Avenue North and 66th Street North in every direction and choking off one of the city’s main east-west routes during peak drive time. St. Petersburg police said the...

The Chattaway, St. Petersburg’s longest-running-restaurant, will close this summer. Reached by phone at the restaurant, Greg Kitto, son of Chattaway matriarch Jillian Frers, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that the closing is “definitely bittersweet.” He promised to elaborate after dinner service on Tuesday night....

St. Pete is losing one of its oldest family-owned businesses this summer. The Chattaway, founded in 1951 with a history that dates back even further, announced that it will be closing its doors this July, ending one of the city’s most iconic runs. The historic restaurant, located at 358...