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INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. - During Hurricane Helene's wrath along the Gulf coast on Thursday, an Indian Rocks Beach surfer paddled toward the screams of people crying out for help from their flooded homes. Marty Thomas rescued more than a dozen people along with their pets using just his surfboard.

Terrifying moments caught on video showed Hurricane Helene’s powerful and deadly storm surge as it crashed into a home in Pinellas County last week.

Customers who visited Salt Public House in Indian Rocks Beach for a beer or burger had a good chance of meeting Aidan Bowles. An Irish businessman and entrepreneur, Bowles opened the Gulf Boulevard restaurant in 2018 with his wife Sabrina and son Sam. Bowles visited customers at their tables, often pulling up a chair to chat.

DUNEDIN, Fla. — The cleanup continues in areas that flooded in north Pinellas County. Sylvia Tzekas, owner of Sea Sea Riders restaurant in Dunedin, was able to reopen her restaurant doors Wednesday. But her home in Clearwater suffered extensive water damage. “We had to cut the drywall, that’s how...

Pinellas County deputies reported another death from Hurricane Helene Wednesday, bringing the current local death toll to 12.

Several Pinellas County restaurants near the water took a major hit from Hurricane Helene, which made landfall just a week ago.

DUNEDIN — Patricia Mikos loved to dance, host family dinners that featured her homemade sauce, and couldn’t help but to be the center of attention. “That typical Italian mom,” said son Frank Kwiatkowski, 51, of Plantation “People just loved her. They just flocked to her, even strangers. Just out of nowhere, people would just really connect with her.”

A Florida sheriff's deputy sustained serious injuries after colliding with a tanker truck in Spring Hill on Tuesday morning.

What was set to be a lucrative season for businesses on Pinellas County beaches may look very different now because of the damage Hurricane Helene left behind.

Many people who were hit hard by Hurricane Helene are now left with the difficult decisions about whether they have enough money to rebuild.

By now, many Floridians know that their local Winn Dixie could potentially become an Aldi due to the latter's purchase of Southeastern Grocers. Although the German grocer hasn't provided a list of Winn Dixie stores identified for conversion, there have been some confirmations. I've written about confirmed conversions for stores in Panama City, Panama City Beach, Lakeland, Deltona, Ocala, The Villages, Pensacola, Melbourne, and Ormond Beach, as some examples. And now we have a confirmation for another Tampa location, along with information about employment opportunities for the affected Winn Dixie employees.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Several mobile home parks around Pinellas County were destroyed by flooding from the storm surge during Hurricane Helene. A lot of residents lost everything inside their homes, and some aren’t sure if they’ll be able to rebuild or stay in their mobile home parks. Pinewood Village Mobile Home Park in St. Petersburg was one of the mobile home parks that flooded.

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — A resident in Sunset Beach said he has been walking more than a mile back and forth to get supplies while FEMA and contractors drive in with their a/c running and no supplies. A Sunset Beach resident said that while he was walking back to...

Just days after Category Four Hurricane Helene devastated beach communities on Florida’s west coast with 10ft. storm surges and dozens of deaths, two local men pleaded with Pinellas County Commissioners during an emergency meeting on Tuesday to keep the hard-hit islands and their famous beaches closed to the public until locals could recover.

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Fire crews are reminding the public to remain cautious of potential hazards following Helene, especially when it comes to electronics and other hazardous materials being submerged in water. The warning comes as Treasure Island Fire Rescue said it has responded to at least 10 fire...

TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — In the wake of Hurricane Helene, the Bilmar Beach Resort on Treasure Island is now grappling with a heartbreaking “first.”. "The property got the most damage in the history of the Bilmar. Which is a 63-year history,” the resort’s general manager Clyde Smith said.

Pinellas County leaders say they are working to find other solutions to help commercial haulers after closing the county's dump site to storm debris on Tuesday.

When a 13-year-old boy was accused of brutally stabbing his grandmother to death in 2019 in St. Petersburg, police and prosecutors were baffled. Javarick Henderson had never been in trouble and came across as polite and intelligent, though traumatized, as he struggled to explain what he’d done. A half-decade...

Storm debris is piling up in areas hit hard by Hurricane Helene in Pinellas County as private haulers and residents are being turned away from county landfills.

“This is weeks, not days, and it’s going to require the efforts of so many in order to help our residents regain their life.”