The nine-year nightmare is over for Sandra Tyrell and Spring Lake Improvement District. ...more

July 26, 2008

Talk about hush-hush wedding planning. First daughter Jenna Bush was the last in the family to know she was getting married. ...more

May 6, 2008

A local delegation is slated to travel to Tallahassee this week to convince the Florida Cabinet that the Cross Bar Ranch should stay on Florida Forever's "A" list for purchase and be dedicated to preservation. ...more

February 24, 2008

K-BAR RANCH - Mobley Homes has altered its plans for K-Bar Ranch. The developer has dropped its bid to build a 500-unit residential and retail town center complex on the west end of the ranch. Instead, Mobley plans 200,000 square feet of commercial and light office space at the intersection of Kinnan Street and Oak Preserve Boulevard, the back entrance of Live Oak Preserve. ...more

January 26, 2008

A delegation of Pasco County legislators and officials made a pitch to Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday morning to keep the Cross Bar Ranch on Florida Forever's "A" list for acquisition. ...more

January 24, 2008

Paul Smokov doesn't need radar or other high-tech equipment to forecast a major snowstorm on the prairie. He consults pig spleens. ...more

December 28, 2007

Pasco County officials made a final pitch to a state committee Thursday in Tallahassee in their bid to buy the Cross Bar Ranch from Pinellas County and dedicate the property to conservation. ...more

December 14, 2007

It just made horse sense for this couple to give up the rat race for ranch life. Now their Inverness farm entices others with an innate need to saddle up. ...more

December 13, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - A doe and fawn pause in a meadow, posing for visitors on a tour of the Cross Bar Ranch in central Pasco County. ...more

December 12, 2007

Surveyors' stakes recently appeared along the edges of County Line Road on either side of its junction with Cypress Creek Road - the first sign that work could soon begin on improvements planned for the intersection. ...more

November 19, 2007