Chez Cirque Fashions will launch its apparel line in the heart of St. Petersburg with a special event from 5-9 p.m. on Dec. 9 at Jackie Z. Style Company, 173 2nd Ave. N. in the Sundial center.

Mayor Rick Kriseman, who praised Chez Cirque's choice to make the city its home.

USF St. Petersburg is a continuously expanding campus, located in the heart of a city on the rise. To answer the ever-growing concerns for space and transportation, the university has partnered with [City of St. Petersburg] Coast Bike Share , a program offering high-tech bicycles as a means of commuting throughout downtown St. Pete.

St. Petersburg area residents who want to have a say in the future of the city's municipal marina may want to put a date down on their calendars. A community meeting is set to take place about improvements to the St. Petersburg Marina on Dec. 6.

Docks in the Central Yacht Basin, where the St. Petersburg Yacht Club is, were built in the early 1960s, while those in the South Yacht Basin that the Dali Museum overlooks were constructed in the mid-1970s. 

The city of St. Petersburg wants you to know that healthy eating doesn't have to mean skimping on flavor, or leaving out the foodies.

As part of Deputy Mayor Dr. Kanika Tomalin's Virtual Progressive Dinner tours, a campaign that kicked off in April, St. Pete's choosiest food bloggers were invited to sample menu items on the West St. Pete Central route Wednesday night. Then there was me, a last-minute replacement.

 

In the first month is any indication, both of St. Pete's experiments in novel ways to get around will be a success.

St. Petersburg, on Tampa Bay, is one such community. Since 2015, St. Petersburg has had three major sewage spills. In September, more than 120 million gallons of partially treated human waste poured into the bay, leaving residents and visitors complaining of the stink and fearful to enter the water.

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman diagnosed it correctly: Changing climate, in the form of heavier rains and storms, has been overwhelming the city's aging wastewater treatment system. St. Petersburg has now committed more than $60 million for short-term upgrades and $300 million to fix the water management system as a whole. In November the City Council also earmarked $800,000 for climate planning, including a switch to 100% renewable energy.

As debate over who's at fault on the matter of St. Petersburg's notorious sewage dumps over the past couple of rainy seasons continues, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has handed down something of an ultimatum for the city: take on a long list of possibly pricey fixes to prevent such dramatic events in the future - or pay the state some $820,000.

Luckily for the city, Kriseman has already opted to commit tens of millions of dollars in an effort to prevent massive sewage dumps in the future.