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More than a week after fire tore through Cobalt Apartments, the community now has final, official numbers — and confirmation that the damaged building won't be reopening.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers found their answer at backup quarterback in an unlikely place. Undrafted rookie Jalon Daniels, out of Kansas, has won the No. 2 job behind Baker Mayfield, beating out veteran Jake Browning as the team finalized its 53-man roster this week.

Women in business across Wesley Chapel have a new chance to connect next week, as Power Gals of Wesley Chapel hosts its next networking gathering.

O'Brien's Irish Pub is bringing live music back to Wesley Chapel this weekend, with a Saturday night set from local performer Matthew Dallas.

The market runs Friday, Sept. 1, starting at 5:30 p.m., and brings together more than 150 local businesses under one roof for an evening of shopping, browsing and supporting small businesses in the community.

Avalon Park Wesley Chapel's popular Art Snacks series is back for another stretch of weekly classes, giving residents a low-commitment way to try a new art technique every week through late October.

Saddlebrook Resort is kicking off Labor Day weekend with back-to-back events, giving Wesley Chapel residents two reasons to stop by over the holiday.

This marks the end of one of the longest-running sagas in Tampa Bay sports — a stadium fight that outlasted multiple mayors, commission cycles and false starts on the other side of the bay in St. Petersburg.

"Florida's Hottest Show on Dirt" is bringing its boots, bulls and barrel racing back for a holiday weekend first. The Tampa Bay Rodeo & Family Festival returns Friday and Saturday, Sept. 4–5, at the Hillsborough County Fairgrounds in Dover — its first-ever Labor Day Weekend appearance.

Pasco County's network of Sheriff's Office license plate readers is being shut down, after Sheriff Chris Nocco said county commissioners no longer back the program that put them there.

A week after fire tore through the Cobalt Apartment Homes, the residents who escaped are left with the same unsettling question: if the building had sprinklers and fire alarms, why did they never go off? Pasco County firefighters are now investigating that exact issue, and residents say the answer, once explained, is both simple and hard to accept.

A fast-moving fire destroys Cobalt apartments building off Wesley Chapel Boulevard on Thursday afternoon, leaving hundreds of neighbors without a home just hours after it started.

A 384-unit apartment community already taking shape along State Road 56 now has new paperwork to match the concrete going up on site. Aventon Companies has closed on the 19.44-acre parcel at the southwest corner of State Road 56 and Meadow Pointe Boulevard, paying $16.25 million to finalize ownership of the land beneath its Aventon Wesley Chapel development.

Pasco County voters settled one competitive County Commission race on Tuesday, but left most of the school board's future undecided — two of three contested seats are now headed to a November runoff.

Incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard defeated Pultorak in the Republican primary for Florida House District 54, taking 68.11% of the vote to Pultorak's 31.89%, according to unofficial results from the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections. Because a write-in candidate is the only name waiting in the general election, Maggard's primary win effectively locks up another term representing east Pasco.

For years, a Wesley Chapel family whose loved one suffered a severe stroke braced for the same grim reality: a transfer out of Pasco County, and a drive to a hospital farther from home while the person they loved lay in a bed they couldn't sit beside. AdventHealth Wesley Chapel is closing that gap.

A small childcare center on County Line Road spent four days this month turning its classrooms into a relief operation, after a deadly earthquake struck western Colombia earlier this month.

Bumper-to-bumper traffic stretched for miles through the Hawthorne Village neighborhood on the first days of school this week, after a car-line route change at Pinecrest Academy sent drop-off and pickup traffic straight into residential streets instead of out onto County Road 54.

At a public hearing in Dade City, commissioners considered an ordinance that would install automated speed enforcement cameras in school zones countywide. If adopted, drivers caught going more than 10 mph over the posted school-zone limit would receive a $100 ticket in the mail — not from an officer on the roadside, but from a camera reviewed later by a certified traffic enforcement official.

Michael Pultorak, a longtime Wesley Chapel resident and 26-year captain with Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, is challenging incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard in the Republican primary for Florida House District 54 on Aug. 18.