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No Red Tide relief in sight as dead fish overwhelm St. Petersburg A toxic algal bloom is plaguing Tampa Bay and befouling St. Petersburg’s shores. It could stick around for a while.     Dead fish are visible in the water at North Shore Park on Friday in St. Petersburg. The Sunshine City has become the epicenter of Tampa Bay's ongoing Red Tide crisis, and no one can say when it will get better. [ DIRK SHADD | Times ] Updated 6 hours ago ST. PETERSBURG — The Sunshine City and its sparkling waterfront parks have become the center of Tampa Bay’s Red Tide crisis.

Dead fish litter the downtown St. Petersburg marina St. Petersburg spokesman Ben Kirby said city officials had reached out for state help in dealing with red tide, which has resulted in 15 tons of dead fish hauled ashore by city crews. But they had not received a response by late Tuesday. That comes on the heels of a letter written by state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried asking the governor to declare a state of emergency. Fried, a Democrat running for governor, asked Ron Desantis to issue an executive order that would help Tampa Bay counties affected by red tide. She wrote: "Severe red...

Greene County Clerk Shane Schoeller, overseer of elections, suggested I keep in mind three things regarding write-in votes. First, if a race has at least one name printed on the ballot, someone who received a write-in vote would have had to register as a write-in candidate in order for the vote to count. (No registration needed if there is no candidate on the ballot.) Second, just because a person gets a write-in vote does not mean the vote counts. The person might live in a different district, or be too young, or not be a citizen. Or might not even exist, like perennial candidate Mickey ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has approved new rules to ban the importation, breeding, sale and possession of 16 high-risk invasive reptiles.

There were two offenders convicted of homicide released on parole in DuPage County during the third quarter of 2020, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by the DuPage Policy Journal.