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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.

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.

Youth hockey in Wesley Chapel just got a new home team. The Tampa Bay Jr. Lightning, the NHL club's first-ever directly operated youth hockey program, held its inaugural season kickoff event Saturday, Aug. 15, at AdventHealth Center Ice.

Wesley Chapel's own stretch of Florida beach is turning into a Tampa Bay Rays Watch Party this month, giving local fans a way to cheer on the team without giving up their spot in the water.

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.