St. Petersburg City Council

A 9-foot-tall, 500-foot-long AquaFence will soon guard Lift Station 85, a wastewater treatment plant that services St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront. TGH's barrier protected it from storm surge during Helene.

Two Tampa-area Republican representatives told council members that voting in favor of the funding would break state law, and they'd oppose further state appropriations from the state if the allocation passed.

Local governments wouldn’t be able to regulate single-use plastic straws under a measure filed Thursday in the House. The proposal (HB 603) by Rep.…