What better way to ring in the new year than with thousands of your closest friends watching fireworks on the St. Pete Pier? ...

You often hear of travelers jetting off to Tampa, but most of them don't base themselves in the city itself. Much like Los ...

Traveling to Florida is nothing new for me. Growing up, my family and I would spend summers and holidays in Orlando, and when ...

Weeks later, the hotel owner agreed to take down the signs. But debates over beach access are constant in Florida, with battles over arcane terms like “wet sand,” and “mean high-water line,” “erosion ...

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Pinellas County announced it's wrapping up its beach nourishment project. The $125 million effort ...

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. — Some St. Pete Beach residents have been waiting for months to get approval for permits to fix their homes after Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Doug Engle has lived in his St.

New Year’s Wants, with a Nod to William Blake Boy Bitten by a Lizard and other Baroque treasures shine at St. Petersburg’s Museum of Fine Arts. Last month I did a coast-to-coast swing in Florida from ...

The traveling country festival returns with Kane Brown, Zach Top, Shaboozey and more. The traveling music festival Country Thunder, shown here in 2021 in Orlando, is coming to St. Pete Beach in 2026. ...

Barrier islands are Florida’s postcard paradises. And developers keep building on them and people keep moving to them in a ...

The Central Florida Explorer’s coverage has expanded to encompass events, music, visual arts, travel, outdoors, feature ...

From Clearwater Beach boardwalk joints to working docks in Cortez and low key marina shacks in St. Pete, this run of Florida ...

ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — Dozens of signs can now be found outside of businesses across St. Pete Beach following a proposal to create tolls at all the access points to the barrier island. The ...