The course will test a skater's skill and agility handling pyramids, stairs, curbs, handrails, ledges, banks and hips. It opens April 4. ...more

March 24, 2009

The 112 canals running along the Lake Wales Ridge in Highlands County have never been inspected or maintained by the county. ...more

January 10, 2009

After taking over the development of Epperson Ranch from Lennar Corp., Tampa-based Metro Development Corp. won county approval this week for a revised vision for the property off Curley Road. ...more

November 7, 2008

For all Sen. Barack Obama's success raising money and generating excitement among voters, he faces a daunting challenge as he prepares to claim the nomination in August: a Democratic convention effort marred by costly setbacks and embarrassing delays. ...more

July 6, 2008

Dominique Martinez lives with passion and dreams. His latest is to turn an abandoned, 1925 fire station into his home and an art gallery. ...more

January 17, 2008

Tom Stracke said flooding was not a problem when he moved in 1980 into his home on Reynoldswood Drive, which borders Old Ehrlich Road and several acres of wetlands. ...more

December 22, 2007

The city council has given initial local historic status to a 1926 building that originally housed a furniture store and recently was restored. ...more

December 15, 2007

The YMCA of the Suncoast has given $600,000 to the Pasco County School District to help pay for an extension of Photonics Drive at J.W. Mitchell High School. ...more

October 8, 2007

What appears to be happening with the cracks in the reservoir might not be due to sinkholes, but could it be a result of questionable quality of the soil cement that was used to construct the base? Why was $500,000 put in Tampa Bay Water's budget last year for 'maintenance' for the reservoir? Did someone know this was coming? Isn't taking $200,000 to 'fix' the reservoir going to diminish the regular maintenance money? Are these inflated costs or was there prior knowledge of defects? What is going on? ...more

September 10, 2007