A Parrish congressional candidate was arrested after deputies say he pushed past detectives during a child-welfare investigation. The children were later confirmed safe.

A USF graduate lost more than 100 pounds before opening a new vegan restaurant. His personal reset is now becoming a Tampa Bay food story.

Tampa’s Thursday forecast brings muggy heat, heavy downpours and a risk of localized flooding, while Gulf beaches face dangerous rip currents.

Houston City Council approved $5.09 million for survivor services, pedestrian safety, street upgrades and SH 35 utility work.

A Tampa woman faces a murder charge after police say drugs she sold contributed to a man’s fatal overdose at a gas station.

A Tarpon Springs civics nonprofit paid its founder and his mother $587,279 in 2024, while filings show little documented spending on schools or teachers.

Hundreds of Florida elementary schools are slated for added reading support after state testing revealed major gaps in at least one grade level.

Tampa faces a 93-degree Wednesday with a heat index near 105, frequent thunderstorms and dangerous rip currents along Gulf beaches through Friday.

Biologists released captive‑reared Florida grasshopper sparrows on the DeLuca Preserve this month, pairing ranching and prescribed fire with captive breeding to help the species recover.

A new Oklahoman photo gallery traces Wynnewood‑born Gen. Tommy Franks’s rise from small‑town roots to leading CENTCOM and the museum he helped build in Hobart. The piece stitches wartime briefings, Washington honors and hometown displays into a local portrait of a national figure.

Sticky heat and scattered storms today in Tampa: highs near 93F, heat-index readings into the 100s and a Heat Advisory for parts of the Nature Coast. Expect brief heavy downpours and humid nights.

Pamela Colloff’s new book says Pinellas prosecutors relied on a prolific jailhouse informant whose testimony helped secure convictions, including one death sentence.

After 17 years and more than 500,000 tons of recycled shells, Florida's reef‑building experiment has jump‑started oyster habitat and drawn fish back to the Gulf.