The city council will consider on Jan. 6 whether an in-patient hospice facility is allowable under its R-3 zoning or if rezoning a 6.3-acre property at 1110 Hammock Road would be necessary. ...more

December 19, 2008

Once a rural coastal area, Apollo Beach is now a thriving upscale community of roughly 15,000 about to celebrate its 50th birthday. ...more

November 12, 2008

At the corner of Barclay Road and The Oaks, about a dozen candidate signs of varying heights pepper the landscape in the wooded parcel across from the subdivision. ...more

September 30, 2008

Would allow candidates to buy them back. ...more

September 30, 2008

Residents began making their way through back streets and dirt roads Sunday afternoon into evacuated areas of this upscale community to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire that scorched surrounding brush-covered hills. ...more

November 26, 2007

LAKE PLACID — The population of the town could double in less than eight years if a proposed development, by local citrus farmer and landowner Alan Grigsby, is successful. The proposal calls for 942 new homes on 375 acres, or an average density of 2.75 dwelling units per acre. Twenty percent of the site will be set aside for commercial development. The tract of mostly farmland is south of West Interlake Boulevard and east of Catfish Creek Road. Rhon Ernest-Jones Consulting Engineers Inc., the project's consultant, expects a "full build-out" by 2015. Any construction depends on the new construction market, Rhon Ernest-Jones said. ...more

October 31, 2007

Like a roadside vigilante, a resident is snatching up signs littering Westchase roadways. ...more

October 6, 2007

WESTCHASE Like a roadside vigilante, a resident is snatching up signs littering Westchase roadways. ...more

October 3, 2007

One day, in the not so distant future, Rubel Melendez may carry a service weapon, write a speeding ticket and handcuff a wanted felon. ...more

October 3, 2007

WESTCHASE - One day, in the not so distant future, Rubel Melendez may carry a service weapon, write a speeding ticket and handcuff a wanted felon. ...more

October 2, 2007