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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.

As the Pasco County volleyball season kicks off, fall sports are back underway across the county, and Wesley Chapel's own programs are setting the pace early in the season.

Stargazers in Wesley Chapel have a reason to stay up a little later this Thursday. A near-total partial lunar eclipse will sweep across the night sky, turning the moon a deep coppery red as Earth's shadow creeps across nearly its entire surface.

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.

Halloween season is almost here in Tampa Bay, and Busch Gardens Howl-O-Scream 2026 is returning with haunted houses, scare zones, live entertainment and some of the park's biggest roller coasters running after dark.

Farmer's Milk officially opened its doors Monday, Aug. 17, at 27049 Halter Loop, rounding out the retail center's lineup after months of anticipation. The café is open daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Good Grounds Coffee Roasters confirmed it's now parked daily outside Florida Avenue Brewing Co., 2029 Arrowgrass Drive, running Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting Aug. 3.

Avalon Park Wesley Chapel is opening its doors to OneBlood's Big Red Bus later this month, giving neighbors an easy, close-to-home way to donate and help keep the region's blood supply stocked.

After six years caring for the community's pets from its Cashford Circle location, Villa Rosa Veterinary Hospital has settled into what it's calling its new "forever home" — and it invited the neighborhood to come see it for themselves.

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.