Teresa Kotch has a little more peace of mind now that a rocket found in her front yard has been blown to bits. ...more

August 26, 2008

Corps finds rockets at former gunnery range. ...more

August 26, 2008

Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten what happened after Hurricane Betsy caused catastrophic flooding four decades ago and again think the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind. ...more

August 24, 2008

Some of Florida's U.S. House members complained Wednesday about being kept in the dark during the state's secret negotiations of a $1.75 billion proposed buyout of U.S. Sugar Corp. ...more

July 31, 2008

SPRING LAKE — Joe DeCerbo thinks he's finally solved Spring Lake's water problem. South Florida Water Management District has allowed a seawall to be built that carries excess rainfall directly to Arbuckle Creek, without flowing over the land of ranch owner Sandra Tyrell. "This will, without a doubt, protect us and Sandy Tyrell forever," said DeCerbo, the manager of Spring Lake Improvement District for the past two years. "As soon as it's finished, we're going to sit down and have an agreement typed with them sitting there. We sign it, and Sandy signs it, and then we call the judge and get that injunction lifted." ...more

July 5, 2008

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection signed off Thursday on plans to dredge 22 canals and four channels, a multimillion-dollar project that has been years in the making. ...more

July 4, 2008

A heroic effort by hundreds of townspeople, volunteers and National Guardsmen to hold back the Mississippi River failed Friday - undone by a burrowing muskrat. ...more

June 28, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County officials gave a green light Thursday for a new Sweetbay grocery store proposed for a site just east of the Suncoast Parkway. ...more

June 27, 2008

More than six decades after the U.S. Army stopped using its Brooksville airfield for chemical weapons training, officials today will give the public a final briefing on a project meant to ensure no toxic material still lurked underground. ...more

June 26, 2008

PUBLIC BRIEFING WRAPS UP PROJECT ...more

June 25, 2008