Clearwater Mayor Bruce Rector received a letter from James Uthmeier last month cautioning against religious discrimination.

Attorney General James Uthmeier is speaking out amid a battle between the City of Clearwater and the Church of Scientology ...

Reporting from Clearwater, Fla. — When the Church of Scientology secretly purchased the dilapidated 11-story Fort Harrison Hotel in this western Florida city in 1975, locals didn’t know what ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Dozens of people in Clearwater are fighting a plan to give more land to the Church of Scientology. The church wants to build a theater and ask the city to sell a public ...

In Clearwater, Fla., there's been a quiet series of land purchases over the last three years, $103 million worth made by the Church of Scientology and its parishioners - a doubling of the church's ...

Residents supporting the Save the Garden movement march to the plot of land for sale in front of the Church of Scientology's Flag Building on Saturday, May 10, 2025, in Clearwater, Florida.

Whether Clearwater needs liberating is open to debate. But after about 25 years of serving, often uneasily, as one of the Church of Scientology’s most important bases in the country, Clearwater ...

CLEARWATER -- Shawn Lonsdale, who became one of the most bedeviling local critics of the Church of Scientology, died last weekend -- apparently by suicide -- at his Clearwater home. He was 39.

CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology's proposal to bring retail and entertainment downtown is a novel development, but the recent rollout of its plans has a tone that goes back decades.