Nearly every day, burly dump trucks filled to the brim with leftover pizza, soiled diapers and discarded egg cartons roll into an expansive metal warehouse and eject their contents onto the concrete floor. ...more

November 16, 2009

The county has expanded its waste-to-energy plant on Falkenburg Road by 50 percent. ...more

November 11, 2009

More than 22 million doses of swine flu vaccine are available now, and most Americans should soon find it easier to get their dose, U.S. health officials said today. ...more

October 27, 2009

For this year's Chaso Fiesta street parade the city of New Port Richey said it would enforce a policy barring the throwing of beads or other trinkets from floats. Five floats or units that allegedly violated the ban were pulled from the March 21 parade, according to Roger Michels, a longtime organizer of the parade. ...more

March 28, 2009

It could be the ugliest spot on the Carrollwood Day School campus, but students in the school's new environmental club plan to make over a mucky, trash-clogged retention pond. ...more

February 4, 2009

1:16 p.m.: From jammed optical scanners to long lines at a University of South Florida polling place, the first hours of voting have produced a mishmash of reported problems statewide, voting rights advocates say. ...more

November 4, 2008

All of the county, state and U.S. roads in Highlands County were open to traffic by Thursday afternoon as the flood waters from Tropical Storm Fay receded off the roadways. ...more

August 22, 2008

Joe Redner and his son got permission Thursday to sell alcohol at a microbrewery the duo plan to open in September. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA - Joe Redner and his son got permission today to sell alcohol at a microbrewery the duo plan to open in September. ...more

June 12, 2008

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June 11, 2008