Pine View Middle School students took a trip on the wild side last week in order to learn more about biodiversity, water quality, habitats and animals through hands-on experiments and observation at Cross Bar Ranch in Spring Hill. ...more

April 1, 2009

Two Seffner teenagers went on a crime spree with a hammer and spray paint, causing nearly $7,000 damage, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

January 14, 2009

As far as a group of Seffner residents is concerned, Gov. Charlie Crist and the rest of the state Cabinet all but signed a death warrant for a family of bald eagles on Tuesday. ...more

July 30, 2008

The old, square two-story white clapboard house tucked in an oak hammock off Bell Shoals Road leans slightly to one side. ...more

July 9, 2008

A resident opposed to a gigantic power line corridor looming over her rural neighborhood has taken her fight to YouTube. ...more

May 10, 2008

For fun in retirement, former car dealer Ed Mansfield plays golf, roots for the Rays and loses himself in prose, poetry and William Shakespeare. ...more

February 1, 2008

LAKE PLACID — If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then Lake Placid is becoming an attention grabber. With $1.3 million of guaranteed state and federal grants slated for beautification and landscaping projects, the Caladium Capital of the world is poised to become greener. The projects will complement local private and business donors who banded together in 1987 to form the Keep Lake Placid Beautiful Committee. About $300,000 of federal funding, funneled through the Florida Department of Transportation, will pay for the extension of roadway median improvements on U.S. 27. ...more

December 8, 2007

In periods of drought, the curious can explore the bottom of the upper Peace River without getting wet. That's great for finding arrowheads and other flotsam, but it's no good for fish and wildlife. ...more

November 27, 2007

BARTOW - In periods of drought, the curious can explore the bottom of the upper Peace River without getting wet. That's great for finding arrowheads and other flotsam, but it's no good for fish and wildlife. ...more

November 26, 2007

BARTOW - In periods of drought, the curious can explore the bottom of the upper Peace River without getting wet. That's great for finding arrowheads and other flotsam, but it's no good for fish and wildlife. State water managers are looking to Lake Hancock for solutions. They're planning a $200 million effort to raise the 4,500-acre lake by a foot and clean up the water that leaves it. ...more

November 15, 2007