The new Gasparilla Parade of the Pirates route through downtown was unveiled this week, and the response to the change has been positive, said Darrell Stefany, president of EventFest, which organizes the event. ...more

October 3, 2009

Fifty years ago, the Tribune printed an intriguing headline: "And Just Why Shouldn't Tampa Have a Woman Mayor?" ...more

March 8, 2009

At long last a promised gazebo is on its way to Giddens Park. Installation is expected to take about two weeks, city parks and recreation officials said. "Awesome," said Sherry Genovar-Simons, president of the Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association. ...more

February 18, 2009

A proposal for a Riverwalk in downtown Tampa has been around in some form or another since the 1970s. And, through the years, some folks have ridiculed it as a pipe dream, a boondoggle and a waste. ...more

January 17, 2009

The NFC road to the Super Bowl will run through the Meadowlands because the New York Giants did what you have to do in bad weather - run the ball. ...more

December 22, 2008

Private donations keep rolling in for the new Tampa Museum of Art. On Monday, museum officials announced that Tampa businessman and philanthropist Frank Morsani and his wife, Carol, have pledged a $3 million gift to the museum's capital and endowment campaigns. ...more

December 1, 2008

Pinellas County deputies arrested a 21-year-old man early this morning in connection with an armed home invasion in which one victim was pistol whipped. ...more

November 30, 2008

When city officials broke ground on the Tampa Museum of Art project in April, missing from the blueprints was a laundry list of amenities they couldn't afford. ...more

November 20, 2008

When city officials broke ground on the Tampa Museum of Art project in April, missing from the blueprints was a laundry list of amenities they couldn't afford. But many of those items are coming back to the scaled-down project, thanks to millions of dollars in private sector donations raised by the museum in the past several months. ...more

November 19, 2008

There was a time when the Rogers Park Golf Course was the one place in the city blacks could go for a round of golf or a family picnic. ...more

November 19, 2008