Another batch of cold, dry air swept into the region on Monday, bringing parts of the Tampa Bay area near the freezing point and prompting the National Weather Service to issue a wind-chill advisory for much of the region. ...more

December 29, 2009

The roller coaster of falling and rising temperatures continues this week as another round of cold fronts is expected to sweep into the region, bringing counties north of the Tampa Bay area near the freezing point tonight. ...more

December 28, 2009

A dispatch went out at about noon Tuesday about a brush fire close to a house in the 1500 block of Lake Josephine Drive. ...more

November 19, 2009

Firefighters have contained a brush fire in the Alafia River area, even though they were stymied by the unreclaimed phosphate mine landscape of steep hills and deep gullies. ...more

November 9, 2009

Alligator Alley has been closed again thanks to smoke from a massive brush fire in the Everglades that has lingered over the highway. ...more

May 3, 2009

RIPEKA Crews from the Florida Division of Forestry are battling a 30-acre brush fire in the Withlacoochee State Forest's Homosassa tract at the north end of Indian Bay. ...more

April 25, 2009

Hernando Beach brush fire is growing, moving west ...more

April 25, 2009

Florida Highway Patrol officials announced that a 78-mile stretch of Allligator Alley previously closed because of a brush fire is now open. ...more

April 25, 2009

Officials have opened all roads in Pasco County closed this morning by smoke from a 300-acre brush fire. Smoke from the smoldering fire forced the sheriff's office to close Ehren Cutoff from State Road 52 to U.S. 41. ...more

March 30, 2009

One home was destroyed and three others have been damaged in a large brush fire north of Lake Wales, where 200 homes are being evacuated. ...more

March 29, 2009