A zoning hearing master is recommending approval of a rezoning request that would allow eight more houses in an environmentally sensitive area along the Little Manatee River. ...more

March 25, 2009

Three years into a deal with state environmental officials, Pasco County has run into problems trying to upgrade its network of troubled sewage-treatment plants. ...more

March 22, 2009

The city is stepping up to get its piece of the $787 billion in federal stimulus money. ...more

February 28, 2009

A developer hoping to add stilt homes to a controversial proposed development on land jutting into the Little Manatee River promises to honor the fragile environment when planning the community. ...more

February 25, 2009

A developer hoping to add more stilt homes to a controversial proposed development on land jutting into the Little Manatee River promised Tuesday night to honor the fragile environment when planning the community. ...more

February 18, 2009

When developers approached Hillsborough County in 2006 about creating a gated community on a spit of land jutting into the Little Manatee River, environmentalists and community activists responded with e-mail blitzes, T-shirt campaigns and emotional speeches. ...more

January 21, 2009

Developers who want to turn a spit of land on the Little Manatee River into a gated community will test a new Hillsborough Planning Commission policy that some believe will allow more urban sprawl in the rural community. Little Manatee Reserve LLC wants to rezone 46 acres, mostly wetlands, from Agricultural Rural into Planned Development, then add 10 more houses on urban-sized lots to the 22 already approved on an adjacent tract. ...more

January 16, 2009

When Jean and Marie Lassegue, of Miramar, bought two vacant lots in Sun 'n Lake of Sebring in 2005, they paid $14,000 each, according to their daughter Stephana Lassegue. ...more

January 13, 2009

Construction on the first phase of a long-awaited North 22nd Street improvement project is running about 90 days behind schedule. ...more

January 7, 2009

Florida is in a painful pause, as is most of the world. I suggest that we view this period, to the extent that we can, as not as being in the middle of a bad accident on the way to the emergency room, but allow ourselves to be in a sunny convalescence, planning for our healthful future. ...more

December 14, 2008