Low-income communities are often the first to bear the brunt of rising seas and warming oceans. It took months of reporting and building up trust with Twin City's residents to share my latest story for @TB_Times https://t.co/U7D28TfhES

NEW: Floridians and politicians were confused and outraged about a deal for the state to pay $83M for 4 acres of land in Destin. New records show a lobbyist for the landowner wrote the proposal that led to the purchase. w/ @MaxChesnes, h/t @Jason_Garcia https://t.co/I5CAyTz5wO

Hillsborough chief deputy resigned amid academic cheating probe @TB_Times

What happens when hurricanes batter the organizations that help others? @jack_prator and @DirkShadd show us how local nonprofits fought through last year's devastating hurricanes to keep their operations going. https://t.co/6jiQmjZCki

"Then a jagged rostrum breached from below the murky water." What a tale from @jack_prator @Michaela_Mull @cliftimestweet and Jeff Woo about the extraordinary effort by @CoastalElasmos with assists from @myfwc @NOAAFisheries to save an endangered sawfish https://t.co/mUgYbRadwQ

There were a lot of moving parts on this story today, but we pulled it all together. Proud of this comprehensive follow-up w/ @jack_prator @Michaela_Mull @alexacoultoff @TMarreroTimes @EmilyWunderlich @DirkShadd of @TB_Times https://t.co/4R1D4NO2T3

Happy #EarthDay2025 everyone. Allow me to piggyback on today’s festivities to notify you of an important venture undertaken by the @TB_Times. This spring we’ve created the Environment Hub, a concentration of our environmental reporting into a core coverage area. Why?

So we’ve dedicated a primary team of four reporters and an editor to the Environment Hub: @MaxChesnes; @mahoneysthename; @jack_prator; @Michaela_Mull and @christisch1. Meet them here:

Was this Clearwater police detective tipping off drug dealers running a multi-million dollar trafficking operation? Or just trying to build "rapport" with informants? Via @jack_prator https://t.co/fUC5wWnjJA

From parks to hurricanes and more, there’s no shortage of Florida environmental news lately Consider supporting our newly formed @TB_Times environment hub 👇 https://t.co/R2mQRRNcuB

BREAKING: Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg has called St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch to inform him the Rays will not meet the March 31 deadline to move forward with a stadium deal. This is a developing story. We'll keep updating. https://t.co/4uEN9Dew7D

NEW: When the @TB_Times revealed the state was pursing golf, hotels, pickleball + more on 9 state parks, Florida was stunned. How could officials make plans threatening beloved wild spaces in secret? This is the story of how it happened. w/ @MaxChesnes:

As Hurricane Helene relief rolled out, I embedded with the wide-eyed volunteers trying to help. I hopped on their helicopters, bush planes, ATVs and (almost) their horses. Here's what we saw. Here's what I learned: https://t.co/wNd65EhfZq

“We’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before, we’ve never seen this influx of people from out of the area that are clearly just here to steal and to pilfer and to do bad things and to target these vulnerable people,” the sheriff said. https://t.co/CjUnOrWBsQ

After a crane plunged hundreds of feet and hit an office building during Hurricane Milton, many in Tampa Bay are asking: How could this happen? No one except the contractor appears to be investigating. https://t.co/yjd4uz7KmM @BetsBarnes @Colleen_Wright @rwoolington @DirkShadd

Just a note that water samplers still need to confirm with data whether this is red tide — and just how strong it’s blooming Sampling was paused because of the storm but will be picking back up today. We’re all curious what the results will show

For my Brandon/Riverview friends, looks like the Alafia is expected to reach record flood levels. #HurricaneMilton #Alafia

BOOKMARK/SHARE: @TB_Times made a resource list to help Tampa Bay residents find up-to-date-info on everything from road closures to outages. Plus, where to get food, WiFi & more after #Milton . We'll keep updating. No paywall. DM me links we've missed. https://t.co/dJrie5tylT

There is still time to get out, Tampa Bay. But the clock is ticking. Here’s how to leave without a car or a ton of spare cash. Uber is offering free rides to shelters with the code MILTONRELIEF. Buses are free. Shelters are open. More info: https://t.co/kIUGTZ8gek

The Monday afternoon update on #HurricaneMilton from @bhensonweather and myself:

Milton just became a Category 4 hurricane. It was still a tropical storm until yesterday afternoon. https://t.co/7DsOuez9lZ