Jason Momoa said he was ready to rock out with the people of Tampa Bay. But before his concert at Jannus Live, the movie star also revealed a secret. Even Aquaman gets nervous. “It’s pretty scary. For me, that’s a beautiful thing,” Momoa said in a phone call from Boston. “You know, I’m 45. I’m […]
On Wednesday afternoon, severe thunderstorms brought rain to much of the Tampa Bay area, stranding motorists and issuing flood warnings for areas including Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco County that ended at 7:45 p.m. A newspaper box floats on the street as drivers drive through floodwaters near the corner of 22nd Avenue North and 58th Street […]
Published 28.08.|Updated 30.August According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, two people were arrested Monday on suspicion of illegally harvesting 801 pounds of saw palmetto berries in Plant City. The incident raises the question: What are saw palmetto berries? And what can you do with so many of them? The multi-trunked palms native to Florida […]
The message from the more than 200 people who gathered outside the entrance to Honeymoon Island State Park on Tuesday was clear: Florida’s state parks are not for sale. It was the third day of protests outside Florida’s busiest state park after the Florida Department of Environmental Protection unveiled plans last week for major new […]
The group behind the plan to build golf courses in Jonathan Dickinson State Park is withdrawing its proposal, a Florida Department of Environmental Protection spokesman told the Tampa Bay Times on Sunday. In a statement, the state agency said the plan for the state park was submitted by the Tuskegee Dunes Foundation, a little-known group […]
Nearly a year before the DeSantis administration sparked a public outcry with its plans to build golf courses on the valuable lands of a state park on the Atlantic coast, a nonprofit national veterans organization made a similar proposal to state and local authorities. Sen. Gayle Harrell (R-Stuart) told the Tampa Bay Times that Lt. […]
In a scathing letter to Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday, Republican U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, along with local authorities, criticized the rushed process behind state plans to build golf courses in Jonathan Dickinson State Park on Florida’s Atlantic coast. The one-hour hearing scheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. during which the public […]
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Bipartisan opposition to a plan to build golf courses and 350-room lodges on the site of a state park escalated into an outcry Thursday as more and more influential Republicans came out against the plans. In an extraordinary act of unified opposition, all elected officials in the state legislature, Cabinet and Congress opposed the plans, […]
The Clearwater Marine Aquarium has officially opened its Manatee Rehabilitation Center, reaching a major milestone in its effort to accommodate the growing number of manatees in need of care. But that’s not the only place in the Tampa Bay Area where you can see manatees, the official marine mammal of the state of Florida since […]
