TAMPA, Fla. — It’s been a long road, but construction is finally underway at an abandoned cigar factory in west Tampa to have it converted into a hotel. The multi-million-dollar project is ...

Tampa's oldest cigar factory is leading the historic preservation efforts for the Sanchez y Haya building in Ybor City. Since the $18 million project launched in 2023, work continues to revitalize ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Advocates are worried federal cuts could mean kids in schools in the Tampa Bay Area could lose their “classroom grandparents.” 80-year-old John Porter has a heart for helping ...

On a Monday morning that began like any other, Nandani*, a machine operator at the Next Manufacturing factory in Sri Lanka’s Katunayake Free Trade Zone, was unexpectedly asked to go home early.

The Tampa Bay area, which has served as the backdrop for March Madness in many variations over the years, will keep doing so into the back end of the decade. Less than two months after the Women ...

Though my dad didn’t smoke cigars, before he joined the Marines, he and his father worked together in a cigar factory. This box came from that place and time. That this otherwise unremarkable ...

Most days, it lives on my desk holding pencils and pens. Though my dad didn’t smoke cigars, before he joined the Marines, he and his father worked together in a cigar factory. This box came from that ...