Nearly two years after a flood rendered the downtown fire station uninhabitable, city workers got started last week on a long-awaited renovation. ...more

November 23, 2009

A social services center is having a hard time finding 20 families to commit to trying to achieve self-sufficiency. ...more

March 25, 2009

Highlands County is looking for a new housing director - again. Nancy Hurley left the position on Friday, becoming the second person to resign as housing director in the past nine months. ...more

February 18, 2009

An East Tampa nonprofit organization is under scrutiny from the city after falling short on a plan to create new jobs with a $250,000 federal development grant. ...more

December 25, 2008

An East Tampa nonprofit organization is under scrutiny from the city after falling short on a plan to create jobs with a $250,000 federal development grant. ...more

December 22, 2008

Health and Human Services Director Jean Rags is confident Hernando County will get a chunk of the federal block grant money earmarked for housing relief, even though the county does not meet certain population parameters. ...more

October 10, 2008

The Circle was transformed into a quaint, eye-pleasing and functional park in 1985 and now more color and improvements are proposed in downtown Sebring's focal point. ...more

September 18, 2008

The committee that was formed to raise money to build a community center in Lake Placid is hopeful the town will receive a $4 million federal grant for construction of a 20,000-square-foot building. ...more

September 10, 2008

City Manager William Poe said it really wasn't that difficult putting together a city budget that cuts spending by nearly $400,000 without cutting services. ...more

September 6, 2008

Camp Cristina, a 55-acre outdoor YMCA day camp, has received a grant that will enable limited-income families to get a break on tuition for its after-school program. ...more

August 27, 2008