The Minnicks returned to their North East Park home to find their gray floors covered in inches of water, tinged yellow. The smell was undeniable. “No question, that’s sewage water,” said Craig Minnick,

Monday morning, roughly three days after the Tampa Bay region felt the historic punch of Hurricane Helene as it charged up the Gulf Coast, tens of thousands of local residents still had no electricity.

With every passing hour since Hurricane Helene swiped Tampa Bay, a stark reality sharpens:We're at the beginning of a long road to recovery.State of play: Governments, organizations and industrious neighbors are working to provide immediate relief to storm survivors,

From Treasure Island to Tampa’s Channel District, bars and restaurants stayed open into Thursday evening. Here’s why, business owners said.

Helene did not directly hit the Bay Area, but an unprecedented storm surge produced by the hurricane devastated many of the coastal communities.

Days after Hurricane Helene pummeled Tampa Bay's coastal communities with record-breaking storm surge, the region is in recovery mode. The big picture: It's safe to say Helene was the worst storm our region has experienced in a century,

The storm brought devastating surge to many parts of Florida’s west coast. Here’s a list of places with donation and volunteer opportunities.