The mayor of Tampa, a city that’s in the crosshairs of Hurricane Milton, issued a grave warning to Florida residents who don’t heed calls to evacuate ahead of the monster storm. “If you ...

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is warning residents to listen to evacuation orders amid the looming threat of Hurricane Milton, which the National Weather Service (NWS) warns could be the worst storm to ...

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor is warning residents ahead of Hurricane Milton’s landfall that if they stay in the evacuation area, they will die. “The No. 1 message, as it has been for several days ...

Tampa General, a Florida hospital with just over 1,000 beds and the region’s only Level 1 trauma center, sits on the tip of Davis Islands. It’s one of the lowest-lying neighborhoods in the ...

The last time the eye of a major storm like Hurricane Milton struck Tampa Bay, in 1921, the city was a sleepy backwater of a few hundred thousands people. A century later, it’s among the fastest ...

Potentially deadly storm surges of up to 15 feet are also possible for Tampa and other coastal communities, significantly higher than the already hugely destructive 4-8 foot surges experienced ...

The weather in Tampa on Tuesday morning could not have been better — temperatures in the low 80s and partly cloudy skies. But it’s not going to stay that way. Hurricane Milton — currently a ...

Your support makes all the difference. Despite its location, Tampa has been lucky to avoid the worst of the hurricanes that slam into the Sunshine State each year. The last time the eye of a large ...

Oct 8 (Reuters) - The Tampa, Florida, metropolitan area, home to around 3.1 million people, is in the direct path of a major hurricane, Milton, for the first time in over a century and vulnerable ...

Waffle House on Tuesday announced that it had closed its Tampa-area locations ahead of the projected landfall of Hurricane Milton, citing the so-called Waffle House Index as a measure of the storm ...

A team at ZooTampa is staying put to keep its 1,000 animals safe as Hurricane Milton arrives. By Annie Correal The orangutans have their blankets, the skunks have their personal space. The ...

Hillsborough County issued mandatory evacuation orders for zones A and B on Monday, while Tampa city officials encouraged residents to look up their zones in order to be prepare for any evacuation ...