By the end of November, a portion of the city's $56 million wastewater plant will come online to process and return treated water to the environment. ...more

November 3, 2007

The Plant City Police Department is seeking to renew the state accreditation it first received in 2004. ...more

October 31, 2007

An act of animal cruelty has two 13-year-old sisters grieving the slaughter of their beloved show pigs. Lindsey and Leann Farkas went to feed the 6-to-8-week old pigs about 9:30 a.m. Saturday when they discovered someone had broken into their locked pen overnight and savagely killed the small animals. ...more

October 20, 2007

PLANT CITY – The old police station at 611 S. Collins St. will be demolished as the city seeks to revitalize the area south of downtown. ...more

October 17, 2007

PLANT CITY - City commissioners on Monday approved a resolution authorizing the city, the Florida Department of Transportation and CSX Transportation Inc. to work together in refurbishing the railroad crossing at Alexander Street and Jim Johnson Road. ...more

October 12, 2007

Police were continuing this week to search for a gunman who they say mortally wounded a Dover man while the victim was riding in a car on eastbound Interstate 4. ...more

October 6, 2007

PLANT CITY - Police were continuing this week to search for a suspect who they say mortally wounded a Dover man while the victim was riding in a car on eastbound Interstate 4. The victim, Jesus Rodriguez, 23, died Monday. Detectives say traffic was heavy on I-4 about 11 p.m. Friday when he was shot near the Alexander Street/Thonotosassa Road exit. Plant City police Sgt. Jim Shultz said detectives are hoping witnesses "saw something strange," wrote down the license plate number of the suspect's vehicle, or can provide more information. ...more

October 2, 2007

Improving the roads that run through the rural areas north of Interstate 4 has become a paramount concern because that sector will undergo tremendous growth during the next 20 years, officials said. ...more

September 26, 2007

Jim Pollard, Annie Mae Thompson Robinson's son, says his mom partied hearty for two days recently to celebrate her 99th birthday. ...more

September 24, 2007

Lake Walden Square in Plant City has a new owner, but a spokesman says there's nothing to announce on the center's shuttered movie theater. ...more

September 14, 2007