Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed and dozens more remain missing after floods and landslides swept the country last week. ...more

November 16, 2009

Target Corp. has sold its interest in the struggling Cypress Creek Town Center project. ...more

November 13, 2009

El Salvador's interior minister says that 40 people have died throughout the country following three days of heavy rains. ...more

November 8, 2009

Target Corp. has sold its interest in the struggling Cypress Creek Town Center project. ...more

November 6, 2009

Despite what you see on certain product labels at garden centers, fertilizer is not plant food. Foods are carbon-based substances - primarily carbohydrates, fats and proteins - that organisms can break down to provide energy and the building blocks to construct and repair living tissue. ...more

October 25, 2009

Now Brian Burnette says he knows why they call it the century plant. For the first time since he moved into his house in 1963 on West Plymouth Street in Tampa, his ordinarily boring-looking plant is anything but that. About two weeks ago after some heavy rains, he noticed a stalk sprouting in the middle that eventually shot 30 to 40 feet toward the sky. Then the vibrant blooms came. ...more

July 11, 2009

The season's second tropical depression could develop in the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, according to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. ...more

June 27, 2009

Environmental scientists have identified large swaths of algae blooms in Old Tampa Bay, from the Howard Frankland Bridge to north of the Courtney Campbell Causeway. ...more

June 20, 2009

Recent heavy rains and a reduction in the drought index prompted county commissioners Tuesday to lift the four-month burning ban in Hernando County. ...more

June 9, 2009

Governor Charlie Crist is asking that a federal disaster be declared after heavy rains flooded central and northeast Florida. ...more

May 25, 2009