ST. PETERSBURG ― The tram was halted as a small, slithery black snake scurried across the Boyd Hill Nature Preserve trail. “I’ve been out here for the last year, pretty much every week,” Nancy Norton, ...

Manatee County is hardly the leading edge of liberalism. Yet it says something about Florida’s tortured approach to growth ...

The degree of difficulty indisputably rises when you’re gardening on a slope (pardon the word play here). There are ways, fortunately, to deal with uneven landscapes that don’t involve just leaving it ...

A Florida state senator is pushing a bill that would require all local governments to perform annual inspections of the water ...

Steven Chappell’s frustration with flooding has been building over the years - as he’s watched it impact his property off ...

The populist Right feeds off a mistrust in democracy. Council representatives are better placed than others to reduce it ...

Elaine and Philip Marco were loving grandparents who were popular members of their local Jewish community when they died in ...

The report, commissioned with engineering firm Mott Macdonald, said members of the public reported a “plume of water” gushing out of the sewer’s inspection chamber, where the manhole cover had blown, ...