Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. ...more

March 23, 2009

Perhaps you held off buying that new refrigerator, or didn't buy a new home altogether. Either way, that meant a bit less garbage on the way to the landfill. Multiply that frugality across several million people in the Tampa Bay area, and the down economy is having a direct impact on the flow of garbage to government dumps. ...more

March 19, 2009

Highlands County residents who recycle are seeing something that they haven't seen in seven years - bins for the drop off of glass. ...more

March 15, 2009

Avon Park is expecting to see its revenue drop by more than 28 percent for next year, according to printed projections provided by city Finance Director Renee Green for its Saturday budget hearing. ...more

July 20, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - It may have looked like a turtle in the middle of the road, but it actually was a bag of cash that had fallen off an armored truck, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. ...more

October 4, 2007