Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay has not been hit directly by a major hurricane since 1921, and authorities fear luck is about to run out for the region and its 3.3 million residents.

A federal judge ruled in favor of environmental groups that sued the Piney Point phosphate plant. Millions of gallons of polluted water flowed into Tampa Bay in 2021.

Environmental groups and the state have reached a settlement over management of a former phosphate plant site that leaked millions of gallons of wastewater in 2021.

The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge this week spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway tragedy.

The state expects to put more than $115 million toward closing the site of a former phosphate plant where a reservoir leak set off a wastewater crisis in Manatee County.

A massive sinkhole under a phosphate plant in Central Florida is dumping millions of gallons of contaminated water into the ground. West in Tampa, that…