The Latest Breaking News from Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. — This was the game you were waiting for. This was the team you remembered.

TAMPA, Fla. — Legislation that would allow Floridians to carry concealed weapons without a permit or training is ready to be taken up by the full House and Senate — without a change to allow people to openly carry guns in public.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Standing before a giant screen emblazoned with “The Florida Blueprint,” Gov. Ron DeSantis took his presidential campaign dry run to Tampa Bay on Wednesday, speaking to several hundred supporters about his leadership philosophy and why Florida is the most “free” state in the nation.

TAMPA, Fla. — From behind a pair of pastel-colored sunglass lenses only he could pull off, Harrison Bader said there are some emotions he prefers to keep to himself for now.

TAMPA, Fla. — The Lightning have been one of the league’s best teams at home, and reeling from their longest losing streak in nine years, a stretch of games at Amalie Arena was just what this team needed.

TAMPA, Fla. — The worst performance of Donovan Smith’s career, combined with salary-cap issues has led to the Bucs’ decision to release the left tackle after eight seasons.

TAMPA, Fla. ― The Bucs have a plan, and it was outlined with evangelical conviction at the NFL scouting combine last week by head coach Todd Bowles and general manager Jason Licht.

TAMPA, Fla. — There’s an old joke about a man who asked his brother to housesit his cat while he goes on a family vacation. When the man calls home to check on everything, the brother blurts out that the cat has died.

TAMPA, Fla. — A band of Cuban dissidents protested inside an expensive Tampa restaurant Friday night, disrupting a meeting between Cuban ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera and a group of business officials and local politicians.

TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis was recorded Thursday telling a member of a gun rights group that he supports allowing Floridians to openly carry guns in public — a measure that has been publicly opposed by some law enforcement officials and that would go further than any bill now…

TAMPA, Fla. — The first directive came last week.