Cypress Point Park is back in business after storms and steady erosion whittled away the banks of the park on the western edge of Cypress Street on Tampa Bay. Traffic is expected to slow near Cypress Point where the city has scheduled a rededication ceremony this morning to mark the end of the park's shoreline restoration. ...more

October 14, 2008

again and again. ...more

October 7, 2008

Fewer Cubans have been apprehended this year trying to enter the United States, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. ...more

September 29, 2008

How do you measure loss? How do you deal with it? ...more

September 19, 2008

President Bush got a firsthand look Tuesday at the fury that Hurricane Ike unleashed on the Gulf Coast. He was greeted by a virtual ghost town in Galveston, where Ike made landfall. Bush urged frustrated storm evacuees to keep it that way until local officials say it is safe to return. ...more

September 17, 2008

More than 800 employees and contract workers from Progress Energy are bound for Texas to help restore power after Hurricane Ike. ...more

September 15, 2008

More than 800 employees and contract workers from Progress Energy are bound for Texas to help restore power following Hurricane Ike. ...more

September 14, 2008

As seen on TV: From the people who brought your the pet rock and "send us your jewelery and we swear we'll send you back the money it's worth" comes America's next great example of marketing genius: Sarah Palin. ...more

September 8, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun releasing water from Lake Okeechobee after record-breaking rainfall and ahead of the storms that are looming in the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

September 7, 2008

I'm in New Orleans now, and have been since Hurricane Gustav crossed over Cuba, and got itself flattered by the mayor as the mother of all storms. ...more

September 5, 2008