ST. PETERSBURG — Mayor Rick Kriseman said Wednesday that the city is straining its resources to pick up dead sealife from the current Red Tide crisis and called for more help from the state and Gov.

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Red tide was detected in Pinellas County waters as residents in coastal communities continued to clean up after Helene. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

Remember that red tide outbreak that was threatening Southwest Florida's coastline just a few days ago? Well, it's gone, mostly. Recent numbers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

Floridians, brace yourself — spring break is almost here, which means hundreds of thousands visitors flocking to our beautiful beaches. However, regardless of if you're a native Floridian or a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission detected red tide organism K. brevis in several dozen samples along Florida’s Gulf coast this week, according to an update ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — Researchers at the University of South Florida led a new study that is the first to identify viruses associated with the organism, karenia brevis, that causes red tide.

At St. Petersburg, the tarpon boats lay idle at their piers. Down the coast at Sarasota, merchants glumly watched the summer vacationists pack their bags and leave. The beach hot-dog stands were ...

FAST Pinellas’ Nehemiah assembly put water quality, housing supply and criminal justice reform on center stage. People dance and sing to gospel music during FAST’s annual Nehemiah Action assembly ...

The red tide in the St. Joseph Bay is not going away. The FWC’s latest test indicates that it is still being found in the ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) - It's like Florida's version of The Blob. Slow moving glops of toxic algae in the northeast Gulf of Mexico are killing sea turtles, sharks and fish, and threatening the waters ...