History takes flight in new MacDill AFB exhibit

The Tampa Bay History Center is celebrating one of the area's most iconic pieces of history - MacDill Air Force Base. 

Historic photos of early St. Petersburg may have been taken by Albert Whitted

A mother's scrapbook and a pilot's aerial photographs provide new insight into early St. Petersburg and one of its best known names: Albert Whitted, the namesake of downtown's airport.

Arturo Fuente cigar factory restoration

Robert Holsopple has remodeled a lot of buildings, but none quite like this one.

Photos: The view from atop Tampa history

They're one of the most iconic symbols of Tampa: The silver minarets that top Plant Hall, the historic building formerly known as Henry Plant's Tampa Bay Hotel.

Space shuttle Atlantis blasts into history

Space shuttle Atlantis found a hole in the clouds and launched into history on Friday, dazzling hundreds of thousands of spectators who mobbed Florida's coast to see the program's final flight.

It's their job to spot the oil

As oil continues to gush from the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard aircrews are using radar and their own eyes to map the progress of the oil.