City of Tampa

Bicyclists now have a safer way to travel from downtown Tampa to east Tampa on the newly expanded bike line.

What are the challenges to running a food bank, particularly when there are high fuel prices and high grocery prices to contend with? The shelves of a local pantry ran dry multiple times last month.

The city canvassed urged residents to dump out any standing water, which is how the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes responsible for the virus breed. Most of the breeding spots are abandoned tires.

The century-old building served as a boarding house during the segregation era. Famous visitors included Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and James Brown.

Many SoHo business owners, concerned years construction could ruin their livelihoods, have sued the city, accusing it of withholding documents to “prevent public scrutiny” ahead of the city council's decision.

On "Florida Matters Live & Local," architect Jerel McCants gives his perspective on what it will take to transform the landmark — which has fallen into disrepair — into a museum, as well as how he first became interested in the project.

"Triumph: Tampa's Untold Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement," produced by Tampa PBS station WEDU, tells the story of the F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in in 1960.

The City of Tampa approved $1.8 million in East Tampa Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) funds for legacy owners to turn a vacant lot into affordable housing.

Organizers said a number of factors made it "increasingly difficult for our organization to sustain ongoing operations for 2026."

The project will transform the now-vacant 1950s-era public housing complex into nearly 1,850 new homes, a community center and a memorial to the Zion Cemetery.

The public housing complex will be razed next month, and the mixed-use apartments replacing it will include a genealogy center and memorial to Tampa's oldest African American burial ground.

One of the factors that contributed to the ranking is Tampa’s resiliency to trade wars.