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It snowed in Miami? We woke up to the impossible on this day, and here’s what we did One digital sign was so bamboozled by the falling snow and crews casting salt along the roadways at The First City ...

Sip & Dry, a St. Pete-based blow dry bar that offers complimentary drinks with its styling services, opens its first Tampa ...

The 2025 Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Preschool Card offers free admission to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Adventure Island Water ...

Airports across north Florida announced closures due to the winter weather that is bringing hazardous conditions.

Snow has begun to fall in Florida as a chilling winter storm continues to make its way past the South. Traffic cameras from ...

The College Football Playoff title game is set to return to Tampa's Raymond James Stadium. Playoff officials chose Tampa to replace Dallas as the host site of the 2029 championship game, according to ...

We're taking it back.' Trump inauguration speech claim that the U.S. will regain control of the Panama Canal spurs immediate ...

A winter storm is expected to bring extreme cold and possible record breaking snow to parts of the deep south.

Here's what's closing in anticipation of wintry weather with possible ice and snow headed for the Tallahassee area on Tuesday ...

In what seems like a once-in-a-lifetime event, some parts of Florida are preparing for winter weather. The real kind.

But critics, including some on City Council, called it a “vanity project” and questioned if West Tampa’s community ...