Lloyd Sowers

Two very different local businesses are teaming up to make potentially lifesaving masks and face shields to protect first responders and others on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight.

School has always meant a teacher in front of a classroom, but not right now. Because of COVID-19, educators have turned into online instructors and many teachers are learning a lot.

In normal times, Tampa Bay Lighting advertisements would be telling fans to Be The Thunder, but these aren’t normal times.

Floridians laid off from their jobs because of COVID-19 are having big problems applying for unemployment benefits. The state of Florida's website and telephone hotline are overloaded, according to government officials.

Pasco County’s 77 thousand public school students started classes on computers at home today joining thousands of others across the Tampa Bay area kept at home by the novel coronavirus threat.

Thousands of students and teachers logged on Monday and, at times, overwhelmed platforms used for virtual learning in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.

A St. Petersburg elementary school loaned out more than 200 computers in two hours Tuesday; virtually every device they could find.

There were some anxious moments on the first day of virtual learning when many students weren’t able to log onto Edsby, the digital platform used by Hillsborough County and other school districts. Students, teachers and parents breathed a sigh of relief when the platform was fixed by mid-morning.

Teachers and students across the Tampa Bay area are getting ready to attend school online.

Strategic Property Partners built a scale, three-dimensional model that uses five projectors and six media servers to virtually make traffic move on Tampa streets, and cruise ships sail up and down the channel.