ANIMAL CONSERVATION
Pasco County takes strides in effort to protect gopher tortoises
In the vast space of Jumping Gully Preserve, county staff are helping better protect the species.
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In the vast space of Jumping Gully Preserve, county staff are helping better protect the species.
Moffitt Cancer Center's Arts in Medicine program helps to provide patients with healing through music.
The county purchased the West Klosterman Preserve for $3 million after five years of effort from a citizens group.
Wish Farms won this year's Agricultural-Environmental Leadership Award from the Florida Department of Agriculture.
This comes after the food bank spent about nine months working out of a fire station mess hall.
"I jumped on its back and pried its jaws open," said the woman who wrestled an alligator to save her dog.
The Carnegie Medal is considered North America’s highest award for civilian heroism.
Barbara Moore founded the organization's predecessor in the 1970s, and it is evolving into a "one-stop shop" for domestic violence assistance.
Keep Pinellas Beautiful is headed to the second annual Do Good Day looking for volunteers and ready to partner with others for trash pickup events.
A local Tarpon Springs veteran is putting her craft for baking confectionery toward a sweet mission.
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Jimmy Michaud and Eric Mullins love vinyl so much they wanted to start a crawl where they visit different record stores in the bay area.
The wildlife tour is 90 minutes long.
The calf named Tucker can be found at the park's Harambe Wildlife Reserve.
The Straz Center broke ground on a new, $80 million renovation project that will add education space to The Patel Conservatory.
A nuisance alligator trapper was contracted and "has been dispatched to remove the alligator."
The ice fell into the home, fire department officials said.
Police say he threatened two Kamala Harris supporters as they campaigned outside a Florida early voting site.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers say they received a tip that led them to the alligators.
Haines City broke ground on Crossroads Village Center, a 120-acre commercial project that will include a Target.
The hole formed after last year’s hurricanes on Estancia Boulevard. More than six months later, it seems to be getting bigger.
Brazilian-based Bauducco Foods recently broke ground in Zephyrhills. State officials said is a prime example of companies building in the state.
The Internal Revenue Service pushed the deadline back to May 1 for those directly impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton.
BayCare’s Morton Plant Hospital recently completed the world’s first transcatheter aortic valve–in–transcatheter aortic valve procedure.
The immediate future of the Cross Bay Ferry could be decided this week during the Hillsborough County Commission meeting.
