The year's latest tropical depression formed today from an area of low pressure tucked near Central America and is expected to become Tropical Storm Ida, possibly today. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have watched the thunderstorms in the extreme southwestern Caribbean Sea since the weekend, and the system continued to become more organized. ...more

November 4, 2009

Royal Caribbean International will increase its annual sailings from the Port of Tampa from 28 to 44 beginning in October 2010 and replace the Grandeur of the Seas with the 2,500 passenger Radiance of the Seas on Tampa cruises. ...more

May 14, 2009

The Coast Guard is searching the waters off Florida for a cruise ship employee who reportedly fell overboard. ...more

January 1, 2009

The investigation of the disappearance of cruise ship passenger Jennifer Ellis-Seitz of Winter Haven could take weeks, FBI spokesman Mike Leverock said today. ...more

December 31, 2008

A Norwegian Cruise Line cruise ship at the center of a missing person mystery returned to the Port of Miami on Sunday morning, where FBI agents stood waiting. ...more

December 29, 2008

It has an ice-skating rink, a rock-climbing wall, a nine-hole miniature golf course, three restaurants and a Ben & Jerry's ice-cream shop. ...more

November 21, 2008

Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas, which shares the title of world's largest cruise ship with sister ships Freedom of the Seas and Liberty of the Seas, has reached Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, from where the ship begin sailing on eastern and western Caribbean itineraries. ...more

November 20, 2008

As Tropical Storm Nana weakened today, another tropical depression formed in the Caribbean Sea and forecasters expect it to become the season's next hurricane. ...more

October 13, 2008

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the western Caribbean Sea. ...more

July 20, 2008

TAMPA - Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center started tracking a tropical wave off Africa today, the first system of the season showing potential to develop. ...more

July 1, 2008