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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 ...

Several North Florida areas are averaging less than $3 a gallon as the region remains the cheapest to get gas in the state, ...

The Florida High School Athletic Association boys soccer district tournaments for 2024-25 kick off Wednesday. The Times-Union ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence Monday that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control fed ...

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

The Panama Canal connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean, providing a crucial shortcut between the Atlantic and ...