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Last month, St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman chose a 21-member group of stakeholders, business owners and residents to move the new St. Petersburg Pier…

According to AAA, more people hit the road for the Fourth of July than Memorial Day. But with tensions building in Iraq, a possible increase in gas taxes,…

Florida has the highest rate of unintentional child drownings in the country. Since 2011, more than 200 children have drowned statewide. However,...

With more people traveling between Cuba and the U.S., money and goods are moving, too. The influx has allowed Cuban-Americans to become investors in the island's emerging private sector.

Eleven children from Florida were among the nearly 170 rescued during a nationwide sex trafficking sting conducted by the FBI and other law enforcement…

It all started when Charles Ramsey, a Washington D.C. police chief, was touring the Holocaust Museum and found himself struck by the involvement of law…

Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott is no fan of taxes, promising to "oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes."And PolitiFact Florida…

The Greenhouse in St. Petersburg helps grow entrepreneurs. Every Wednesday morning, a group called 1 Million Cups meets to give entrepreneurs the chance…

Four Tampa Bay area mayors met for a public forum to show their unified support for the Greenlight Pinellas campaign. In November, Pinellas County voters…

An autopsy shows that a man was intoxicated when he shot his wife and children and set their house on fire before killing himself in a $1.6 million Tampa…

The Florida Orchestra has named Michael Francis its new Music Director.

The University of South Florida has donated 1.4 acres in downtown St. Petersburg to All Children’s Hospital for a “research, education and training...

MacDinton's Pub in Tampa was painted red, white and blue for the USA's World Cup showdown against Germany. America lost 1-0, but will still advance to the…

Are internet comments sections the new town square, or cesspools of racism, sexism and worse?Whenever you scroll down through a comments section, at some…

Morning Edition host David Greene speaks about a man named Isbel Diaz Torres, a new kind of Cuban activist. Greene says Torres' interests extend Cuba's socialist revolution, rather than oppose it.

A new report by a youth advocacy group argues against the widespread U.S. practice of locking up teen offenders --- a practice that has been on the…

All over Florida, laws are changing to make it easier for suburban homeowners to do a little farming. It's becoming more and more common to have a…

There was a time when community meant more than cookie-cutter houses with manicured lawns. Children not only responded to parents but their neighbors too.…

A hurricane watch was issued for part of North Carolina's coast early Wednesday as Tropical Storm Arthur moved northward, threatening Fourth of July plans…

Close to 50 Florida hospitals have successfully reined in a practice that can cause big problems: Deliberately delivering an infant before the...

Acid has long been used in oil drilling in Florida, but Collier County officials say the state has been lax in its oversight of a new process that involves injecting acid underground under pressure.

It's called chikungunya. And it causes severe joint pain that can last for months. A quarter of a million people have caught the virus in the Caribbean. So how big a problem will it be stateside?

Susan and Ed Bilbao grew up in the Philippines, in an environment very heavily influenced by Catholicism. Susan worked for religious organizations, and Ed…

Ronald Gregg has drummed nearly his entire life, playing with musicians all over the world and for the U.S. Army Band.But it all had to start somewhere.In…

A Sarasota urologist who diagnoses prostate cancer in an unusual way and treats U.S. patients at a clinic in Cancun will not agree to a suspension from...