Pasco County's chief attorney advised county commissioners Tuesday to avoid directly challenging a controversial landfill proposed for agricultural land south of Dade City. ...more

January 7, 2009

Pasco County's lawyer tells commissioners not to directly challenge a proposed landfill outside of Dade City. ...more

January 6, 2009

The Highlands County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday on measures that move forward plans for a security training center that could employ up to 200 people and a cellulosic ethanol plant that will create an estimated 140 jobs in the southern end of the county. ...more

December 24, 2008

Landowners that previously had a vision for a wedding chapel and gardens on U.S. 301 are divorcing that plan in favor of a mixed-use development of large-lot home sites and one-story offices, mixed with a smattering of specialty retail shops. ...more

October 22, 2008

Landowners who previously had a vision for a wedding chapel and gardens on U.S. 301 are divorcing that plan in favor of a mixed-use development of large-lot home sites and one-story offices, mixed with a smattering of specialty retail shops. ...more

October 22, 2008

Deluges on Saturday, rain this morning and a threat of more wet stuff later today has prompted the weather service to issue a flood warning for the Manatee River at Myakka Head. ...more

June 22, 2008

Even before the Iowa River used Oakville as a shortcut to the Mississippi, there wasn't much there: A post office, a convenience store, a tavern and a little restaurant. ...more

June 19, 2008

TAMPA Enterprising thieves have found new venues from which to pilfer: fields of strawberries and groves of oranges. They're not stealing produce, but diesel fuel out of tanks, copper and aluminum wiring out of pump houses and sprinkler heads amid the strawberry plants. ...more

June 3, 2008

TAMPA - As cold as it seemed this morning, tomorrow morning's temperature will be even lower, dipping into the 20s ‑ possibly the teens ‑ in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

January 2, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Americans play more sports and are polite and friendly, or so believe 12 Russian snowbirds visiting Highlands County. A dozen Russian 10th-graders from St. Petersburg are returning the favor after a group of Lake Placid students visited Russia 10 weeks ago. Student Dima Bofodin likes the "nearly perfect" Florida climate, compared with nine colder months a year at home. "The local people play more sports, (especially) with wakeboards and jet skis," Bofodin observed. "And the school's compete against other schools in sports." He also gave a thumbs up to American manners. ...more

October 30, 2007