Petitioners want judge to hear their case. ...more

August 5, 2008

Dumping thousands of cubic yards of slurry dredged from the bottom of the Hernando Beach channel onto a property on Eagle Nest Drive could harm the water quality of nearby Minnow Creek and poses a flooding risk for neighboring homes. ...more

August 5, 2008

HEARINGS TAKE AS MANY AS 70 DAYS TO SCHEDULE ...more

July 27, 2008

About 3,500 Hernando County residents will be getting letters in the next week from Progress Energy about the company's preferred routes for new power lines. ...more

July 16, 2008

TAMPA - A request to raise home insurance rates for customers of the Florida Farm Bureau was rejected today in a final order issued by Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation. ...more

July 1, 2008

A group of residents plans to challenge the validity of the county's permit to store spoil dredged from the channel there on a four-acre parcel on Eagle Nest Drive. ...more

June 17, 2008

But residents in opposition plan to ask for hearing. ...more

June 16, 2008

A judge's recommendation last month that St. Joseph's Hospital should build a new regional hospital on Big Bend Road puts a crinkle in South Bay Hospital's plans to build across from the site. ...more

June 16, 2008

SEBRING –– Two of the three county budget office employees fired for sending sexually explicit instant messages on their county work computers during work hours are threatening state and, if that doesn't work, federal legal action. Those threats were made by Jim McCollum, attorney for Treasa Handley and Jarod Lee, who were fired for sending several thousand "inappropriate" instant messages during work, many of them described as "sexually explicit." ...more

February 21, 2008

State insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty on Tuesday filed a complaint seeking once again to bar Allstate insurance companies from doing future business in the state. ...more

February 20, 2008