Clearwater-Beach News

Toys for Tots prep meeting is Wednesday The Morris F. Dixon Jr. Detachment of the Marine Corps League is gearing up for the 2009 Toys for Tots campaign with a goal to provide 1,500 families in the upper Pinellas County area with toys.

Back in 1925, hotel rooms were scarce on Clearwater Beach and most visitors were 'tin can tourists' who camped in or near their flivvers.

The Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3 will take place Saturday morning in Clearwater Beach.

The trucks rolled in from Panama City this weekend, loaded with the stuff endurance races are made of: parking for 1,600 bicycles, hundreds of tents, tables and sponsor displays and a towering finish-line arch.

The 2009 Tampa Bay Breast Cancer 3-Day is officially underway through Pinellas County.

Teen runaways, gone 20 days, found on beach Two teenage runaways were found on Clearwater Beach this week after a story about them was published in regional editions of the St.

Visit Clearwater Beach on a nice, sunny day, and you will likely run into some traffic when the time comes to pack up your towels, chairs and suntan oil.

Like other areas in Florida, Madeira Beach has lost thousands of hotel rooms to condominium development.

The city will hold a public meeting Wednesday evening about a plan to change two streets on South Clearwater Beach into one-way thoroughfares.

Technicians completed the two and half week installation of a permanent weather station on the Big Dock tower this week, making Cedar Key the first station in Florida capable of enduring hurricanes up to category 4. "Everybody's been wondering what that mushroom's been about," said NOAA contractor Lee Chapin.

It may sound alarmist to some, but one scientist says enjoy Clearwater Beach now, because by 2100 it may no longer be there.

When we announced our plans to move to Florida from Ohio a few years ago, folks up North seemed to have one major objection: "Oh, won't you miss the changing seasons?" Ive always been of the opinion that the seasons in Ohio are a) Almost Winter , b) Winter , c) Still Winter , and d) Road Construction , so it really wasn't a major concern for me.

Way back in 1925, Florida gave the local government a swath of land in Clearwater Bay to build a causeway to Clearwater Beach.

Scientist says Bay area coastline could disappear in next 90 years It may sound alarmist to some, but one scientist says enjoy Clearwater Beach now, because by 2100 it may no longer be there.

Inflatable games on the sand. Face painting and balloon sculptures. Bands performing on stage.

The city has closed a free parking lot at the western end of Memorial Causeway just east of the Clearwater Beach Roundabout.

City officials are turning their attention to the most efficient ways to route traffic in the South Beach section of Clearwater beach now that it appears that, after decades of false starts, a public parking garage will finally be built on the island.

The city is considering major changes for traffic on Clearwater Beach, turning two streets into one-way thoroughfares.

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The city's tourist-based economy has suffered greatly in recent years, as thousands of hotel rooms have been lost to condo development.