Now that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch is safely preserved in Hillsborough County's conservation program, what happens next? ...more

January 31, 2010

Hillsborough County on Thursday set aside the largest piece of land in the history of the county's conservation program. ...more

January 22, 2010

Activists who want the 12,000-acre Cone Ranch immediately transferred to Hillsborough County's land-conservation program might have to wait five years. ...more

January 19, 2010

Proving the value of the Cone Ranch property and why Hillsborough County should restore and protect it requires leg work, some say. ...more

December 15, 2009

The Hillsborough County Water Resource Services Department, which controls the Cone ranch property, is denying public access, citing a lack of staff to accompany visitors. ...more

December 14, 2009

Tourism, teachers and the disabled will benefit from Gov. Charlie Crist's decision on Tuesday to preserve nearly $365 million in state spending that lawmakers had proposed cutting this month. ...more

January 28, 2009

The $2.6 billion package of state budget cuts and funding swaps that lawmakers approved on Wednesday includes the following: ...more

January 15, 2009

K-12 education lost $466 million. County health departments lost $7.7 million. Pasco County kept $5 million for new businesses. ...more

January 15, 2009

About $400,000 for conservation land purchases in Highlands County this year will be lost if, as expected, the state legislature suspends the state's Florida Forever land conservation program. ...more

January 13, 2009

The state Senate wants to suspend the Florida Forever land conservation program six months, effectively abandoning dozens of land purchases already in the works, including several in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

January 9, 2009