A thick bed of foul-smelling muck blankets the bottom of a dozen canals along Old Tampa Bay, caused by decades of stormwater runoff and overdevelopment. ...more

December 14, 2009

Tampa and residents have wrangled for years over whose responsibility it is to clean up the canals, many of them carved into the coastline by developers in the early-1960s after the West Shore area was annexed into the city from Hillsborough County. ...more

December 13, 2009

Leaders of the International Association of Firefighters Local 754 have agreed to forgo a cost-of-living raise and step increases for firefighters who qualified this fiscal year. In exchange, the city has agreed not to require random drug testing for firefighters and to provide $114,000 this year in tuition reimbursement for firefighters attending school. ...more

December 10, 2009

The stage is set for a final confrontation between the city and its police union. ...more

November 28, 2009

After nine years, the city's Web site needed a facelift. Tarpon Springs recently unveiled the latest version of its World Wide Web information center that has a cleaner, more contemporary look that is easier to navigate. ...more

November 28, 2009

On Tuesday night, city commissioners learned the city must raise its water and sewer rates by an additional two percent each year through 2019 to make up for revenue shortfalls and remain in compliance with bond covenants. ...more

November 21, 2009

Brooksville City council members are looking to go in a different direction than Hernando County Commissioners by not decreasing impact fees to 2001 levels. ...more

November 16, 2009

Two months ago, Jacksonville, was threatened with cancellation of its 2009 Veterans Day parade after the City Council cut the parade's funding. Only a firestorm of protests from the city's residents restored the parade. ...more

November 10, 2009

Restoration of Beach Park's main entry is scheduled to begin this week, culminating a five-year effort to beautify the arches that date from when the community was platted in 1926. ...more

November 9, 2009

City officials trying to balance community needs with safety at the annual Gasparilla Parade have come up with these compromises: ...more

November 6, 2009