The start of 2024 has been one of the sharkiest that anglers have ever experienced around the west coast of Florida. Earlier this year, when a beached whale carcass was disposed of offshore, it brought in high numbers of great white and tiger sharks within sight of land off Sarasota County. Now tarpon season has […]
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Thursday marks 44 years since the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, an event that sent shockwaves across the Tampa Bay area. On May 9, 1980, the 19,734-ton Summit Venture freighter, got lost in fog and slammed into the bridge, tearing away a large part of the span. Thirty-five people were killed. Most were aboard a […]
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A Sarasota woman who hit a Florida trooper’s vehicle during a 10K race on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge is set to spend the next 10 years in prison. Kristen Watts, 54, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and fleeing and eluding law enforcement at a sentencing hearing Tuesday, more than two years after the […]
For many Floridians, the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore felt eerily familiar. Over four decades ago, the southbound span of the first Sunshine Skyway bridge was struck by the 19,734-ton freighter Summit Venture. Robert Raiola, a former Florida Department of Transportation bridge inspector, still remembers that day vividly. He and his […]
Drivers looking to visit St. Petersburg from Manatee County will need to find a different route on Sunday morning. The Florida Highway Patrol announced that the Sunshine Skyway Bridge’s northbound lanes will be closed from 3:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Sunday, March 3, for the 7th annual Skyway 10k race. Southbound traffic headed from St. […]