About

Cigar City Hometown 428 is an independent hometown news site for Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater and the Tampa Bay area. We collect Tampa Bay’s stories from the newsrooms that report them and pair them with live readings from the bay and the Gulf.

Cigar City Hometown 428 is independent. It is not connected to any television station, network or newspaper, including the newsrooms whose headlines it links to.

Headlines on Cigar City Hometown 428 are gathered from local and national newsrooms, and every one links to the outlet that reported it. Live panels for weather, water, housing and travel are built from public data, credited where they appear. Alongside the news we publish announcements from businesses and organizations, clearly labeled as paid releases.

Cigar City Hometown 428 is part of StateSync Recorder Media.