Tampa Beacon

11/17/2025

For the first time in, well, forever, to pick the best boys basketball team in New Tampa and Temple Terrace requires a coin flip.

TAMPA — For the first time in, well, forever, to pick the best boys basketball team in New Tampa and Temple Terrace requires a coin flip.

11/17/2025

In Temple Terrace, the oak canopy that arches over many of its streets isn’t just part of the city’s scenery, it’s part of the city’s identity. But arborist Joe Ferris says that canopy is aging, and the time to act is now.

TEMPLE TERRACE — In Temple Terrace, the oak canopy that arches over many of its streets isn’t just part of the city’s scenery, it’s part of the city’s identity. But

11/15/2025

The game came down to one play, a “feast or famine” overtime gamble by Wiregrass Ranch football coach Mark Kantor. Palmetto refused to let it happen.

11/14/2025

No Tampa Bay region hospitals received a failing grade for patient safety, but several were given C ratings in rankings released Nov. 13 by the independent nonprofit Leapfrog.

11/14/2025

The plan would convert the university’s old Claw golf course into housing, a hotel, conference center, retail, green spaces and the academic building.

The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s public universities, voted to approve the University of South Florida’s proposed mixed-use Fletcher District at a meeting in Tampa on Nov.

11/12/2025

When Travian Mitchell walked into the Tampa Bay Tech auditorium that day, he thought he was responding to a routine lighting issue. Instead, a large crowd gave him an ovation when he walked through the door.

TAMPA — When Travian Mitchell walked into the Tampa Bay Tech auditorium that day, he thought he was responding to a routine lighting issue.

11/12/2025

The Archers are indeed young, rostering just one junior, one eighth-grader and no seniors despite the school's first graduating class coming in 2026. But the group has talent and determination, which showed when the Archers won their inaugural game.

LAND O’ LAKES — It was worth the wait.

11/11/2025

The Wildcats, just three seasons removed from an 0-10 record, are in the playoffs, and they will be playing mighty Lakeland on Friday, Nov. 14 in the Class 5A region quarterfinals.

WESLEY CHAPEL — A while back, Bruce Patterson had a dream.

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Hall served for more than 20 years in the U.S. Navy, earning a table full of medals and other accommodations that were on display at his birthday party. “It's wonderful,” Hall said of the party. “A real surprise. I didn't expect all this at all."

Hall served for more than 20 years in the U.S. Navy, earning a table full of medals and other accommodations that were on display at his birthday party.

11/10/2025

This is your nonna’s cooking cranked to the umpteenth degree, and you’ll leave with a full belly. Find out what our reporter loved best about his dining experience at Piccolo Buco!

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11/10/2025

Ron Perisee, who helped the program snap a 30-game losing streak in his first season in 2024, resigned before the last game of his second season.

TAMPA — Freedom is looking for a football coach.