ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A team of auditors with the Florida DOGE arrived Wednesday morning at the St. Petersburg City Hall. This is a two-day effort to comb through the city’s finances in person ...

A teacher is facing a charge for driving under the influence after Hernando County deputies said he crashed his car in the school parking lot ...

A woman who lives in the Frayser mobile home park was also charged with aggravated cruelty to animals. Jane Reynolds, 52, is accused of asking Palpallatoc to kill her neighbor’s dog after it allegedly ...

PALMETTO, Fla. (WFLA) — An endangered smalltooth sawfish was relocated this week after being trapped in a lower Tampa Bay wetland.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A vehicle caught on fire on I-275 northbound near the Dick Misener Bridge Wednesday afternoon. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

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State Attorney Jack Campbell and Defense Attorney Peter Mills met at the Leon County Courthouse in the suspected Florida ...

VENICE, Fla. (WFLA) — A man is dead following a deputy-involved shooting that took place in Venice Wednesday afternoon.

The 2025 winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest has bloomed into an adorably quirky champion after being rescued from ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has identified two people who died after an Auburndale home caught fire Tuesday afternoon.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa Bay was recently named among the areas with the worst inflation problems, according to WalletHub.

A man was rescued after officers found him clinging to his overturned kayak with “his head barely above water,” the Florida ...