A public interest legal group is asking the Florida Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that allowed the city of Largo to seize a property over unpaid property fines that the group argues are ...

When Matthew Weidner signed up to compete in the National Cyber League for the first time two years ago, competition was about the last thing on his mind. He was more concerned with getting a sense of ...

In 2015, then-St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman championed a plan to crack down on the city’s so-called “zombie properties” by aggressively foreclosing on them. The city would target poorly ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Have you ever driven down Burlington Avenue toward Mirror Lake in St. Pete? You may have seen a fence along the road — behind it is a community urban garden, created by Matt ...

Malekia and Maya McKinney were desperate to keep the property where they had grown up. The city of St. Petersburg had filed a lawsuit to foreclose on it in March of 2018, citing unpaid property fines.

Last month Marina Adair returned to Bradenton desperate to save her home. The 1925 house, located in the Village of the Arts neighborhood Adair helped found, had once been the location for her art ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — St. Petersburg city leaders are set to vote on potential solutions to unusually high water bills, on Thursday. Residents have voiced their frustrations over the bills for ...

Weidner has sold cities on the idea that they can transform code enforcement rules that used to be intended to achieve compliance into money-makers, by aggressively collecting money cities were owed ...