Hourly parking at The Cigar Factory in downtown Charleston will impact business at Mercantile & Mash coffee shop. Rappahannock Oyster Bar says change is needed.

The father and son combo is transforming the Perfecto Garcia Cigar Factory on N 16th St. into apartments. Robert F Holsopple and his son Robert are restoration specialists. They say they're building a ...

A boxy, four-story brick building on Riberia Street is one of the few remaining examples of St. Augustine’s once-thriving cigar industry. Now local hotelier Kanti Patel — who is also building the new ...

During the early 1900s, there were at least four Smeltzer Cigar Factories in Bittersville; a small village located at the end of the trolley line from York into southeastern York County. Cigar ...

Zack Wittman at Dave Decker Photography in Ybor City, Florida on Jan. 12, 2026. By the time Zack Wittman had the opportunity to photograph Tampa’s cigar ...

If you’ve been smoking cigars for a couple decades, chances are you’ve noticed that finding a place to light up is increasingly difficult. The first statewide smoking ban in bars arrived in California ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — More than a century ago ...

Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...

According to construction manager Yusufu Bomani, the reasoning behind converting the former Rossi Cigar Co. building in the West Oakland neighborhood into seven brick-and-timber lofts was quite simple ...

TAMPA, Florida -- "When they walk in, it's like stepping back in time." That's Bobby Newman, the third-generation owner of the J.C. Newman Cigar Factory, speaking to the charms of exploring Ybor ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — More than a century ago, cigar factories were filled with hundreds of immigrant cigar rollers, the strong smell of tobacco, and the sound of knowledge. He sat on an elevated ...