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18/10/2025

We had a great time today at the USF homecoming parade. It was great to see everyone who came out to the event!

17/10/2025

Sprouts will celebrate its grand opening at the sprawling site in November, and Coral Gables-based Altis Cardinal expects Sky Town to welcome residents in the fall of 2027.

17/10/2025

The decline in Florida mirrors what happened nationwide. The CDC reported 30,000 fewer U.S. overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline recorded.

17/10/2025

Rebecca Louise Law has collected flowers for more than twenty years. She now has about two million of them. The preserved petals are the artist's paint — and museum spaces — her canvas.

Her newest installation is inside the Museum of Botany and the Arts at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota.

Read more: https://www.wusf.org/arts-culture/2025-10-17/selby-gardens-art-exhibit-thousands-hand-strung-preserved-flowers

17/10/2025

Longtimer Joseph Bell said Rogers Park Golf Course in Tampa is the next best thing to family.

“Some place to go, something to do, friends and camaraderie. Almost fall short of saying everything, but it’s close,” Bell said.

The 18-hole, par-71 course was once part of a playground for African Americans during segregation. It’s also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Read more: https://www.wusf.org/sports/2025-10-15/how-rogers-park-golf-course-tampa-shaped-generations-black-history

17/10/2025

Dr. Dia'a Daoud, an emergency physician from the Orlando area, embarked on an aid mission to Gaza, where he was detained by Israeli Defense Forces.

Read more: https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2025-10-17/florida-doctor-recounts-being-captured-gaza-aid-mission

17/10/2025

Pinellas' People First Hurricane Recovery Program offers funding for families with low to medium incomes.

17/10/2025

Hillsborough County commissioners on Wednesday approved spending an additional $3 million in tourist taxes to advance design work for a major indoor sports facility in North Tampa on MOSI land.

Read more: https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2025-10-16/hillsborough-adds-3-million-design-planned-sports-complex-mosi-land

17/10/2025

This is episode 100 of the Bay Blend! Just a quick thank you if you've been a true blender as we've gotten this show off the ground. We won't get too sappy with it, but we seriously couldn't do this without you - so thank you. Here's to 100 more, and beyond. Anyways, you can tell we’re getting really close to the holiday season with the amount of cool events we have going on in the Tampa Bay area, and today Malaika Hollist will talk about what’s going on this weekend. Before we get to that, here’s the news.

17/10/2025

The Hillsborough County State Attorney's office dropped the felony criminal case against the man who drew national attention after being accused of tying his bull terrier dog to a fence along I-75 and abandoning it in the face of Hurricane Milton.

A Florida prosecutor has dropped the felony criminal case against the man who drew national attention after being accused of tying his bull terrier dog to a fence along Interstate 75 and abandoning it in the face of an approaching major hurricane.

17/10/2025

Some key impacts of the shutdown have been pushed back by moves by the Trump administration. But those efforts are temporary, and the pain could spread depending on how long the stalemate lasts.

17/10/2025

This week on The Zest Podcast, catch up with the co-hosts of the PBS show "America's Test Kitchen." They share the kitchen tools worth upgrading, reveal guilty-pleasure foods they love to buy from gas stations and more.

'America’s Test Kitchen' co-hosts on their Florida show, kitchen hacks and favorite gas station treats Published October 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM EDT Ways To Subscribe Apple Spotify Today we’re catching up with the co-hosts of America’s Test Kitchen. It’s the PBS cooking show that teaches us whi...