The good news: For the first time in nearly a decade, Tampa Bay has seen an overall increase in the aquatic plant that curbs erosion, cuts pollution and is a general indicator of the bay’s health.

On the front page of last Friday’s La Gaceta, Tampa Bay’s trilingual newspaper, publisher Patrick Mantiega’s “As We Heard It” column listed one possibility: State Sen. Jay Collins ...

On the morning of Tampa Pride (Saturday ... then head to Water Street where Beacon at the JW Marriott (510 Water St.) hosts a Pride edition of its Spill the Tea brunch starting at 11 a.m. The ...

Or I can just walk down; I don't have to drive to it," Macpherson said. "Everything is going too slow, way too slow. Getting permits, getting people to do it; it has just been a sad situation," ...

Launching from Bradenton Beach, the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program and Southwest Florida Water Management District went on a science expedition to check on the health of seagrass beds in Sarasota Bay. A ...