Roads were closed for five hours Thursday in Hendry County as hazmat crews cleaned up manganese nitrate and iron nitrate that fell from a Lake Placid truck driver's rig. ...more

August 28, 2009

SEBRING Highlands County residents parking their cars or mowing on dry, high grass are inadvertently causing wildfires, which have been higher than usual for this time of the year. ...more

March 3, 2009

Dennis Mann wants to put a theater somewhere in Lake Placid, but he is not sure it will be on the site being considered. ...more

February 24, 2009

The Christmas shopping season often can put a colorful coating on an otherwise rotten economy. ...more

January 24, 2009

When ambulance crews rolled up on the aftermath of a violent car wreck nearly three years ago, they found taxi driver John Kelly dead, his body partially ejected from his cab. ...more

January 15, 2009

When ambulance crews rolled up on the aftermath of a violent car wreck nearly three years ago, they found taxi driver John Kelly dead, his body partially ejected from his cab. ...more

January 14, 2009

SEBRING Like most areas of the state and the country, Highlands County saw its unemployment rate rise substantially in 2008. ...more

December 31, 2008

If the South Florida Water Management District comes up with $1.34 million to buy 180,000 acres from U.S. Sugar, your taxes will go up, says State Rep. Denise Grimsley. ...more

December 28, 2008

The gap between Hernando County's unemployment rate and that of the state's worst-ranked county isn't what it used to be. ...more

December 20, 2008

Two people on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle were killed this afternoon when a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, traveling the wrong direction, hit them head-on, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. ...more

November 29, 2008