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

The heat is on. ...more

October 23, 2009

A Senate committee has approved opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling within 10 miles to the Florida Panhandle and within 45 miles off the rest of the state's coastline. ...more

June 9, 2009

The Marines based at Camp Lejeune now know when their missions to Iraq will end, but they also know their deadly days of fighting overseas are far from over. ...more

February 27, 2009

Otis Anthony has dedicated his life to improving conditions for blacks in Tampa. One of his many contributions is a collection of oral histories, articles and transcripts he gathered in the 1970s and has since donated to the University of South Florida for preservation. The following are excerpts from some of his interviews. ...more

February 8, 2009

Waterfront residents whose boats have been bogged down in silt for years may get a reprieve. ...more

January 23, 2009

State regulators are making progress in moving policies out of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and into the hands of private insurers. ...more

December 14, 2008

Hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spared could end up seeing them condemned by the state. ...more

September 19, 2008

TAMPA Hanna, Ike and Josephine, the conga line of storms in the Atlantic Ocean, could keep Florida on edge into next week. ...more

September 2, 2008