All that stands in the way of the Meres Town Center project moving along according to schedule is an Army Corps of Engineers permit on the extension of Meres Boulevard from Alt. 19 to U.S. 19. ...more

October 31, 2009

The federal government has awarded a $5.3 million grant for dredging 70 miles of channels in Tampa Harbor and $472,000 to widen a portion of the main Tampa channel to create a passing lane for ships through the Port of Tampa, U.S. Rep Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, said Friday. ...more

October 3, 2009

A federal judge in Miami has lifted an injunction that prevented the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from building a 1-mile bridge on a road through the Everglades. ...more

June 18, 2009

A former Army Corps of Engineers consultant on trial for bribery was working behind the scenes to improve a Hurricane Katrina levee project, not to profit from it, his defense attorney told jurors Monday. ...more

March 31, 2009

Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school provided a warning of the kind of threat that still hangs over them in the days ahead. ...more

March 29, 2009

The man charged with handling the northern portion of Cypress Creek Town Center said Thursday the property is not for sale. ...more

March 27, 2009

With regards to Keith Bricklemyer's (a land use attorney) comments in "Wetlands Division A Redundancy" (Views, March 21): It was Shakespeare who once wrote those immortal words, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Has anyone ever noticed the overwhelming majority of those who write in protest about the Environmental Protection Commission are developers, land use attorneys, and those individuals with large parcels of land that just happen to be predominately composed of wetlands, not uplands? ...more

March 26, 2009

The northern portion of the planned Cypress Creek Town Center complex on State Road 56 has been listed for sale by its owner. ...more

March 26, 2009

Part of the Cypress Creek Town Center property is for sale. ...more

March 25, 2009

As an attorney who worked for a number of years at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in Tallahassee, I strongly disagree with attorney Keith W. Bricklemyer's assertions ("Other Views," March 21) that Hillsborough County's wetlands division is a "duplication" and that we can get environmental protection from the FDEP, the Southwest Florida Water Management District or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. ...more

March 25, 2009