Tierra Verde News

Big cottony clouds floated in an azure sky Sunday as crowds mobbed the beaches to enjoy perfect summer weather.

With an area of high pressure firmly entrenched over our area, fishing overall has been tough at times.

Law could aid anti-annexation efforts on island Activists in Tierra Verde have won one battle in their effort to stop annexation from tearing their community apart.

East Lake Woodlands residents soundly squashed Oldsmar's March bid to annex more than 2,000 acres of their community.

Editor: I was on my way recently to visit a friend by boat living on Tierra Verde.

Captain Alva Sholty has been ferrying tourists to Shell Key Preserve for 20 years.

In 2006, after William Deparvine was sentenced to death for killing Richard and Karla Van Dusen for their vintage Chevy pickup, a prosecutor leveled with the slain couple's family.

About a month ago, St. Petersburg said it would no longer provide fire service to this island's residents and would not bid on the contract to do so.

"He wasn't a fighter": That's what his family says about Ernest Nicks, who landed in Normandy on D-Day and fought in seven major battles.

The paddle wheel of the StarLite Princess churns the Intracoastal Waterway in February.

The broken and splintered pilings that once greeted visitors to this coastal community are gone.

Florida lost its best beach crown to Hawaii, but two of the Sunshine State's beaches made "Dr. Beach" Stephen P. Leatherman's 2009 list of top 10 beaches, which was released Friday.

By Jamal Thalji and Craig Pittman , Times Staff Writers In Print: Sunday, May 24, 2009 ST.

St. Petersburg police investigators gather at 1927 Brightwaters Blvd. NE where a body was found Friday.

Pinellas deputies say the body of man with a gunshot wound has been found floating in the water near a dock in Tierra Verde.

As part of the local observance of the 2009 edition of National Safe Boating Week, Tampa Bay area U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary flotillas have scheduled a variety of activities in Brandon, Ruskin and Fort DeSoto on Saturday, May 16, 2009 and in Gulfport on May 16 and May 17.

Authorities arrested a doctor in Pinellas County on charges he illegally distributed the drug oxycodone.

The Board of Pinellas County Commissioners approved dates on May 5 for public hearings on proposed amendments to the land development code.

St. Petersburg, Florida -- Oyster domes, also known as reef balls, are used to help restore oyster populations in struggling habitat areas.

A Florida House committee on Tuesday stripped out language in a bill that would have voided St.