With help from a state grant of $1.6 million and a housing developer's donation of about $80,000, Highlands County will go ahead with two major road improvements in the new 2008-09 fiscal year, which starts Wednesday. ...more

September 26, 2008

Here on the Hillsborough River, the tannin-stained water flows languidly past a mishmash of houses, apartment buildings and the occasional restaurant or marina. ...more

September 25, 2008

Department of Public Works Director Charles Mixson, suspended without pay the last two weeks after a scathing disciplinary notice, returns to work today. ...more

September 16, 2008

McMullen Road will be closed overnight for the second time in less than a month. This time, the one-and-a-half-mile stretch between Boyette Road and Balm-Riverview Road will be closed for storm drain installation work by the county. ...more

September 3, 2008

Planning commissioners, property owners and residents can weigh in Monday on a proposal to boost commercial potential at two spots on North Dale Mabry Highway north of Van Dyke Road. ...more

September 3, 2008

U.S. 19 might take a turn for the better with a little help from the public. ...more

August 27, 2008

Ships began crawling up the Mississippi River at New Orleans in a tightly controlled procession Friday, two days after a massive oil spill shut down a stretch of one of the nation's critical commercial arteries. ...more

July 26, 2008

A proposal that would boost commercial potential at two spots along a northern stretch of North Dale Mabry Highway has residents fuming. ...more

July 9, 2008

A proposal that would boost commercial potential at two spots along a northern stretch of North Dale Mabry Highway has residents fuming. ...more

July 9, 2008

Businesses along a 2-mile stretch of West Linebaugh Avenue soon will be able to connect to county water, thanks to a $2.2 million potable water pipeline project. ...more

July 5, 2008