Swim Across America Marks 15 Years of Pediatric Cancer Fundraising in St. Petersburg
Swim Across America hosted its 15th Tampa Bay Open Water Swim on May 9 at Spa Beach Park in St. Petersburg. Since its inception, this charity swim has generated more than $2 million for pediatric cancer research at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. Swimmers of all ages and abilities showed...
Apollo Beach to the stars: Third grader’s artwork heads to the International Space Station...
APOLLO BEACH, Fla. - Eeshan Kallu isn't your average third grader. While his classmates at Dorothy C. York Innovation Academy in Apollo Beach are busy building homemade solar stoves to learn about radiant energy, Kallu is preparing for a "field trip" that is literally out of this world. The backstory:
Inside the Turkish restaurant transforming St. Pete’s EDGE District
In Istanbul, the best meals happen near water. At rooftop restaurants and crowded market stalls where the Bosphorus Strait stretches between Europe and Asia, centuries of history move with the current. That sense of place is exactly what Doved and Tammy Sexter have spent two decades recreating in Florida. Now, St. Pete
Florida Rep. Luna Delivers $1.6 Million To Shield Treasure Island Sewers From Storms
Damage from Hurricane Helene, City of Treasure Island, 2024. TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. – Treasure Island...
New Florida law will require heart screenings for student-athletes
TAMPA, Fla. — A new Florida law, which goes into effect July 1, will require heart screenings for all high school athletes. That's why the non-profit Who We Play For is hosting community heart-screening events across the state. They say Sudden Cardiac Arrest takes the lives of 23,000 youth each year.
Home prices rose just 0.5% nationally — the weakest growth since 2011 — while...
The national housing market just posted its weakest price growth in nearly 15 years. Median home prices rose only 0.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2026, landing at $404,300, according to the National Association of Realtors’ quarterly metro report released in early May. According to NAR’s historical quarterl
St. Petersburg Pedestrian Killed In 49th Street Collision
Florida Highway Patrol ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A fatal crash involving a vehicle and a...
Woman Ejected After Jeep Flips In Violent Madeira Beach Red Light Run And Collision
Breaking Local News (Tampa Free Press) PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. – A late-night crash at a...
HCSO K-9 finds missing and endangered 96-year-old in woods
LUTZ, Fla. - The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said their search K-9 Boomer found a missing and endangered 96-year-old. The backstory: — On Saturday, May 9, deputies responded to reports of a missing man, Ray Cornett, on the 18000 block of 4th Street Southeast in Lutz. While multiple...
Video shows chaotic teen takeover in Florida
Twenty-two young people were arrested in Tampa Friday night after trying to take over a park, according to the Tampa Police Department . Police bodycam video of the scene shows an officer taking down a person in a gray hoodie as the crowd at Curtis Hixon Park scatters. Everyone arrested was between the ages of 12 and 2
