Two local Red Cross volunteers are on their way to Texas to help with Hurricane Ike relief efforts. ...more

September 18, 2008

Residents of this hurricane-wrecked island city launched an ill-advised attempt to return to their crippled hometown Wednesday, but instead fumed in hours of gridlocked traffic only to be turned away at the bridge. ...more

September 18, 2008

The death toll from Hurricane Ike is remarkably low so far, considering that legions of people stayed behind as the storm obliterated row after row of homes along the Texas coast. But officials suspect there are more victims out there and say some might simply have been swept out to sea. ...more

September 18, 2008

Despite thousands of price-gouging complaints statewide, gasoline prices in Florida continued to rise today. ...more

September 17, 2008

'Some' employees will be laid off. ...more

September 16, 2008

Faced with a hobbled housing market and plummeting demand for its products, Cemex will temporarily shutter its Brooksville North cement production plant by the end of year, company officials confirmed Monday. ...more

September 16, 2008

Gas prices climbed again today in the Tampa Bay area after Hurricane Ike, and the Florida attorney general's office said it is being flooded with complaints about the price spikes. ...more

September 15, 2008

Two airlines canceled six departures today from Tampa International Airport to Houston airports and halted three Houston arrivals because of weather-related problems in Texas that Hurricane Ike is causing. ...more

September 12, 2008

Motorists moved gingerly along a flooded Sunset Boulevard in Port Richey on Thursday morning as tidal water from the Pithlachascotee River flooded the roadway. Homes and businesses along the road were not flooded, and by late morning the water was beginning to recede. A high tide coupled with a surge from Hurricane Ike pushed water higher along Florida's west coast Thursday morning. The Pithlachascotee River runs along Sunset Boulevard in Port Richey. ...more

September 12, 2008

Hurricane Ike is currently no threat to Hernando County. That was the latest word Monday from Emergency Operations Center officials as the storm battered Cuba. Ike, a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, is expected to merge back into the Gulf of Mexico by tonight where it could gather strength as it churns west-northwest through the Gulf of Mexico towards the Louisiana and Texas coasts. ...more

September 9, 2008