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

People are hurting bad out there, and if you doubt that, go talk to anyone running a food pantry around Highlands County. Tough times have left households in ruins, people living in their cars and desperately needing food. It's painful to see so many people in serious need. ...more

November 15, 2009

The Hillsborough County Fair offered much more than just a hip-hop-blaring midway. ...more

November 11, 2009

It looks like rain will be around the Tampa Bay area through the afternoon and probably into the drive home for most folks. ...more

July 9, 2009

The city has started running ads this week to hire an architect and engineer for the long-awaited fire station renovation. ...more

May 8, 2009

Expanded prep summaries ...more

April 18, 2009

North Florida is facing a problem that's opposite from the rest of the state - too much water instead of too little. ...more

April 9, 2009

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Staff at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California say the trickster who flooded their offices with sea water was armed. Eight-armed, to be exact. ...more

February 27, 2009

When an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at George W. Bush in December at a Baghdad news conference, the attack spawned a flood of Web quips, political satire and street rallies across the Arab world. ...more

January 30, 2009

When people were successfully making the case for approving the Penny for Pasco one-cent special sales tax during the March 2004 referendum, voters were told the Pasco School District badly needed its 45 percent share of the tax's annual revenue - more than $400 million over 10 years - because it was swamped by a huge annual influx of students. ...more

January 14, 2009