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  1. Tampa Bay Water pushes conservation amid limited rainfall
    38 minutes ago• Environment
    The regional water utility, Tampa Bay Water, is urging people not to waste water in light of reduced rainfall. TIMES (2009).
  2. See photos of Tampa Bay cloaked in Canadian wildfire smoke
    2 hours ago• Environment
    The downtown Tampa skyline is pictured at sunrise amid hazy conditions due to Canadian wildfires, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023.
  3. Hillsborough chief judge declines to intervene in Warren suspension
    Earlier today• Hillsborough
    Suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren.
  5. Tampa Bay designer makes fashion for women with disabilities
    Earlier today• Business
    Models walks the runway during Tampa Bay Fashion Week wearing Lady Natasha Fines line of clothing for women with disabilities, “Lady Fines” on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023 in Tampa.
  6. State attorney ousted by DeSantis opens campaign account. Will he run?
    Yesterday• Politics
    Suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren, left, and the state attorney appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to replace him, Susan Lopez.
  7. Tampa’s Busch Gardens is opening a new swinging family ride
    Yesterday• Entertainment
    Busch Gardens announced a new ride is coming next spring called “Phoenix Rising” that will take riders on a soaring journey above the park’s Serengeti Plain.
  8. Tampa’s Dash Tesla SUVs to soon hit downtown streets at $2 a ride
    Yesterday• Transportation
    One of the new Dash rideshare Teslas soon to hit the streets of downtown Tampa.
  9. Tampa has 25 remaining cigar factories, 23 are being used. Here’s how.
    Yesterday• History
    Tampa was home to more than 200 cigar factories in the 1920s, churning out millions of cigars and shipping them worldwide. J.C. Newman Cigar Company is the sole survivor today at its Ybor City factory at 2701 N 16th St. (Times 2019)
  10. At this Tampa luggage shop, there’s a history of fixing everything
    Oct. 1• Bay Magazine
    Luggage Service Inc. owner Robert “Bob” King, right, poses with son Eric at the Tampa store. The family-run business has been around more than a century.
  11. Senator’s wife seeks Hillsborough school board seat
    Oct. 1• Education
    Nadia Combs, Hillsborough County School Board Chair, speaks during the yearly back-to-school news conference for Hillsborough County at Hillsborough High School on Friday, Aug. 4, in Tampa. She said she expects an expensive attempt by her political opposition to try to "paint me as someone I'm not."
  12. In Tampa’s Hyde Park, a hotel at long last
    Sept. 30• Travel
    Avi Brosh is owner of Palisociety, a California-based company that is opening the Palihouse hotel in Tampa's Hyde Park Village.
  13. Who will be Tampa’s next mayor? It’s already the talk of the town
    Sept. 30• Tampa
    CHRIS URSO | Times Then-Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn walks with then-candidate Jane Castor during her 2019 campaign. Buckhorn's name has popped up as a potential successor to Castor when her second term ends in 2027.
  14. In rare memorial, former Times reporter Lucy Morgan honored as trailblazer
    Sept. 29• Politics
    Family and friends gather in the chamber of the Florida House of Representatives for the memorial service held for legendary reporter Lucy Morgan on Friday in Tallahassee.
  15. 2 Hillsborough beaches get swim advisories after fecal bacteria found in water
    Sept. 29• Environment
    Swim advisories have been issued at two Hillsborough County beaches, including the Davis Islands Beach, shown above in a 2022 photo, after fecal bacteria was found in the water.
  16. Hillsborough school district and its teachers are close to a deal on pay
    Sept. 29• Education
    Negotiating teams for the Hillsborough County School District, left; and the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association, right, near the end of a long bargaining session on Sept. 28, 2023.
  17. Deputies investigate fatal shooting in Tampa
    Sept. 29• Crime
    A man in his 20s was fatally shot in an unincorporated part of northeast Tampa on Thursday, deputies said.
  18. When will you next vote in the city of Tampa? Here’s what we know.
    Sept. 28• Tampa
    Voting signs are pictured in front of the St. James House of Prayer Episcopal on Election Day in Tampa in March. On Thursday, a Tampa City Council majority opposed the idea of switching the city's Election Day to November in even-numbered years. city
  19. 7 fall coffee drinks to try around Tampa Bay that go beyond pumpkin spice
    Sept. 28• Food
    A Pumpkin Cinnamon Bun Latte at The Chelsea in St. Petersburg.
  20. Tampa Bay Times Top Workplaces deadline extended
    Sept. 28• Business
    Submit a company name at tampabay.com/nominate. You can call as well at 727-498-5578. The deadline is Nov. 3.
  21. Ybor City Gas Worx signs its first office lease
    Sept. 28• Tampa
    A rendering of the office building that Grow Financial Federal Credit Union is set to move its headquarters into at the Gas Worx development in 2026.
  22. West Tampa cigar factory to become a hotel
    Sept. 28• History
    “(The building is) in a great location,” said Dylan Desai of the family-operated My Hospitality Hotels, which purchased the factory for $1.4 million and is spending another $12 million on the project. “And it’s survived more than 100 years for a reason.”
  23. Why ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic is mad at Florida State star Jordan Travis
    Sept. 27• Florida State Seminoles
    "Tiger King" star Joe Exotic has put himself in the middle of the Florida-Florida State rivalry because of Jordan Travis-related T-shirts.
  24. Here are the best Tampa Bay Halloween events, from fun to frights
    Sept. 27• Life & Culture
    A punk vampire at Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights in 2018 is the kind of roving scare actor that draws thousands of Halloween fans to the Orlando theme park every fall.
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