St. Pete plans to use A/I to reduce traffic

It almost doesn’t seem to matter the time of day; brake lights and bumper-to-bumper traffic are all too common in the Tampa Bay Area. 

Therapy K-9 becoming well-known on the campus of USF St. Petersburg

A new resident of USF St. Petersburg is joining Rocky the Bull as a mainstay on campus. Three-year-old Snowbird is a therapy comfort K-9 that makes regular rounds on campus.

Dad feels like 'coolest Papi' while introducing daughter to dolphin pal

A dad in St Petersburg, Florida, said that a friendly dolphin made him "the coolest papi" when he was able to introduce it to his daughter.

Large crowd calls on St. Pete to create more affordable housing

More than 1,500 people a packed sanctuary Monday night at the First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg to demand the city do more to address the housing crisis.

Bay Pines VA hosts annual event for homeless veterans

The Bay Pines VA hosted their annual Stand Down for Homeless Veterans outreach event, supplying hundreds of vets with vital resources needed to find housing, work and healthcare.

Tropicana Field damage: Inside the Tampa Bay Rays' stadium ravaged by Hurricane Milton

Just one day before they ask St. Petersburg City Council for $22.7 million to rebuild the roof of Tropicana Field, city staffers showed the damaged MLB stadium during a walk-through of the facility. 

Rays St. Pete stadium deadline passes. What’s next?

The March 31 deadline came and went and the City of St. Petersburg never got a termination notice from the Tampa Bay Rays. The $1.3 billion dollar deal officially died, without the fanfare of its coronation.

Hurricane Helene storm surge relocates dozens of Egmont Key tortoises to Fort De Soto

Visitors to Fort De Soto may notice some new residents. Experts say they’re monitoring 84 tortoise burrows at Fort De Soto, which is 10 times the number of burrows there before Hurricane Helene.

2 teens shot in St. Pete, police investigating: SPPD

St. Petersburg police are working to figure out who fired shots on Thursday night during a dispute, leaving two 16-year-olds hurt.

St. Pete leaders approve streamlined solutions to adjust extremely high water bills

St. Petersburg City Council unanimously approved ways to streamline solutions to adjust extremely high water bills at its meeting on Thursday, adding in a section to the city code about relief for abnormal events. 

St. Pete mayor on Rays, hurricane recovery and next steps: 'We’ve got a lot on our plate'

The city of St. Petersburg has been through a lot the past six months, still recovering from back-to-back hurricanes, then losing the deal to build a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays.

Potential plans in the works for former Toytown Landfill in St. Pete

The only noise now at the site of the former Toytown landfill in St. Petersburg is from cars driving in the distance. It’s a sound that could be replaced by the roars of cheering crowds. 

St. Pete developer touts offer to fix the Trop, buy Gas Plant land after Rays back out of stadium deal

A St. Petersburg developer who has offered to buy the land around Tropicana Field says he can have developers begin construction the moment the lease to Tropicana Field is up, and that it will not cost any public dollars.