In the 1950s, investors bought in, and by the end of the decade, St. Armands Circle was being called the Worth Avenue of Florida’s West Coast. Fine-dining restaurants sat beside clothiers, jewelers ...

Fourteen months after the 2024 hurricanes, boardwalks on the 1.4-mile walking trail have been repaired, and the park has ...

FOX 35 meteorologist T.J. Springer explains what factors may have helped keep tropical storms and hurricanes away from the U.S. this season. The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ended Nov. 30, 2025.

If you want to feel transported to a tropical island without ever leaving the country, a quick trip across Longboat Pass Bridge could be just what the doctor ordered. Connecting the barrier island of ...

This graphic plots the tracks of all the hurricanes and tropical storms that formed in the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. No hurricanes hit U.S. soil for the first time since 2015. Brian McNoldy For ...

A shooting at a children's birthday party in Stockton, California, left four people dead and 11 injured. The number of mass shootings in the U.S. is down in 2025 compared to the previous year, ...

The Resort at Longboat Key Club doesn’t announce itself with fanfare. It reveals itself only after a winding drive through live oaks and palms. By the time guests reach the porte cochère, they already ...

Back in April, scientists read the tea leaves — or, more accurately, heaps of data — and predicted an above-average hurricane season over the summer and autumn, with nine or 10 named storms, four of ...

After a lack of tropical systems in the Gulf, a dry end to summer and a strong early cold front during November, the shallow waters west of Central Florida are as clean as I can remember in my ...