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  1. Pinellas ‘DUI wolf pack’ this weekend dedicated to teen killed by impaired driver
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    Sophie Delott, 17, was killed by an impaired driver while riding her bike over the Indian Rocks Beach Causeway Bridget in 2019. A 'DUI wolf pack' operation this weekend in Pinellas County is dedicated in her memory.
  2. Regal will have $2 family movies at theaters this summer
    Yesterday• Kids & Family
    Regal will feature kid favorites such as “The Lego Movie” for $2 on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings this summer. In the movie, Lego Batman is voiced by Will Arnett; Wyldstyle is voiced by Elizabeth Banks; and Emmet Brickowski is voiced by Chris Pratt.
  3. What’s it like to film 10 movies in 9 months in Tampa Bay? Ask this crew.
    Yesterday• Movies
    Tal Zentmeyer, 2nd AC, snaps a slate for a scene for the film "Baked With a Kiss" at Walsingham Park in Seminole.
  5. 3 Daughters Brewing opens pub at St. Pete-Clearwater airport
    May 25• Business
    A rendering shows 3 Daughters Brewing's new pub at St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport. Announced in 2019, the bar and restaurant officially opened Wednesday.
  6. Is this the end of public COVID testing sites in Tampa Bay?
    May 24• Health
    Robert Dinwiddie of St. Petersburg gets his nose swabbed during a COVID-19 test at Tropicana Field on Feb. 7. The test site closed two weeks later, part of a wave of closures that has left both sides of Tampa Bay, for the time being, without a free, walk-up site.
  7. Tampa Bay Times adds reporter Sam Ogozalek in Report for America position
    May 24• Community News
    Tampa Bay Times journalists Sam Ogozalek, left, and Hannah Critchfield are both fellows with Report for America.
  8. Tallahassee judge dismisses Pinellas lawsuit challenging state election law
    May 24• Pinellas
    State Rep. Chris Latvala, left, originally filed to run in 2024 for Pinellas County Commission District 5, currently held by Karen Seel, right. A new state law allows him to run this year instead.
  9. Tampa Bay has ‘high’ COVID levels, masks recommended indoors
    May 23• Health
    Under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines, “high” community level is the threshold when federal health officials recommend that all residents wear a well-fitting mask in public indoor spaces.
  10. Florida lawmakers want to fix property insurance. Here are the big issues.
    May 23• Politics
    Roofers install shingles on a stilt home on Mexico Beach, seven months after Hurricane Michael made landfall, destroying many of the structures in the small coastal Panhandle town.
  11. Cold-blooded, but cuddly? The Potts brothers talk reptile pets.
    May 21• Pets
    Andrew Potts, 61, left, displays two bearded dragons as his brother Bob Potts, 53, has a trio of geckos climbing around in his hands at Herp Hobby Shop Reptile Breeding Center at 700 St Petersburg Drive W in Oldsmar. The brothers have owned the pet shop for over 30 years.
  12. Flu season’s almost over, but Tampa Bay kids keep getting sick
    May 21• Health
    Diego Moreno, 1, looks while Walgreens pharmacist Bhargavi Patel gives his mother Juanita Gonzalez a free flu shot in Plant City in October 2020. The flu had been less of a problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, when masks and social distancing were in effect, but now Tampa Bay is seeing a rise in cases at an unusual time of year.
  13. Clearwater favors Ruth Eckerd Hall to manage its waterfront amphitheater
    May 20• Clearwater
    The amphitheater is pictured on the left in this rendering of the $84 million Imagine Clearwater waterfront renovation. The park is under construction with a completion target of July 2023.
  14. What Tampa Bay attractions, zoos and museums have in store this summer
    May 19• Theme Parks
    Eleanor Walker, 4, left, and Edie Walker, 5, visit with Hope at her home in July 2020 inside the Kate Tidemann & Ellen Cotton Main Pool and Window of Wonder at the Ruth and J.O. Stone Dolphin Complex. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium opened an $80 million expansion thanks to fundraising and attendance that surged in the last 10 years because of Winter the dolphin. Winter died in November.
  15. He’s hooked on fishing and the Skyway Fishing Pier
    May 19• Environment
    Greg Sgrignoli, 63, catches a small crevalle jack from the north Skyway Fishing Pier. The Pennsylvania man visits often to fish from the pier.
  16. 10 things about Scientology now appearing in a Tampa Bay legal case
    May 19• Clearwater
    This photo from the L. Ron Hubbard Library shows Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, in the south of France in 1968.
  17. Former Scientologist called police. When that went nowhere, she sued.
    May 19• Clearwater
    The Church of Scientology's Flag Building at 215 S Fort Harrison Ave. in downtown Clearwater.
  18. Pinellas changes hurricane evacuation zones for 93,000 residents
    May 18• Hurricane
    Flooded furniture and personal belongings of Diane Carr, 59, lie in her yard the morning after Tropical Storm Eta at the Twin City Manufactured Home Community in St. Petersburg. Eta flooded thousands of properties in Pinellas County in November 2020.
  19. USF picks Denver educator Christian Hardigree to lead St. Pete campus
    May 18• Education
    Christian Hardigree speaks during a news conference via Zoom on May 18, 2022, after she was selected as the new regional chancellor at the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus.
  20. Condo, townhome project approved in Clearwater’s North Marina Area
    May 17• Clearwater
    The site of the 60-unit residential project approved by the Clearwater Community Development Board on May 17, 2022, is seen from the south end at the corner of Cedar Street and Blanche B Littlejohn Trail. The Pinellas Trail is to the east, beyond the guardrail at far right.
  21. Kevin Hendrick is named Pinellas County’s new school superintendent
    May 17• Education
    Kevin Hendrick, as a finalist for the job of Pinellas Schools Superintendent speaks to the crowd during a meet and greet at Pinellas County School District headquarters on Wednesday, May 11, 2022 in Largo. The School Board voted unanimously on May 17 to give him the job.
  22. Here are the top students at Pinellas private schools for 2022
    May 17• Education
    Students from Pinellas County private schools are graduating this month along with their peers in area public schools.
  23. Introducing the valedictorians and salutatorians for Pinellas public schools
    May 17• Education
    Seniors applaud at the conclusion of the Star-Spangled Banner during Pinellas Park High School's graduation ceremony at Tropicana Field in 2019. Ceremonies for the Class of 2022 begin Thursday at the Trop, where all but three Pinellas high schools will hold their commencements.
  24. Clearwater to put its natural gas utility on the market
    May 16• Clearwater
    Clearwater is one of 27 towns or cities in Florida that own a natural gas utility, and Clearwater Gas is the fourth-largest of the municipally owned systems.
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