Aaron Couch's project turns municipal budget data into interactive charts, giving a clearer look at where city money goes.

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them ...

A spendthrift government is raising borrowing costs for everyone.

The South Florida Water Management District is now rewarding hunters for removing python eggs and active nests from the ...

LLM agents need memory to store what they have seen and retrieve it when needed. Everyone hand-designs these systems: pick a vector store, write some retrieval logic, tune the prompts, ship it. This ...

Something has been quietly emptying the Everglades. Burmese pythons — some stretching past 13 feet — have spent decades working through South Florida’s food web, consuming mammals faster than ...

Summer fun may be cut short for some families in Kansas. The Sunflower Summer program is scaling back again, after lawmakers slashed the budget. Trump faces bipartisan backlash over Memorial Day ...

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at jsolochek@tampabay.com. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...

The Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration, the nonprofit said in a blog post yesterday. The grant ...

748 pythons were caught in July 2025 alone (up from 235 in July 2024). The US state of Florida is addressing its invasive Burmese python problem by converting the snakes into high-end leather products ...

Governor Ron DeSantis says the removal of giant invasive snakes from the Everglades in Florida has tripled compared with last year. "These species are under a unique threat from one particular ...