The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will let stand a lower court ruling that guarantees, for the time being, a sustained flow of water to Florida's Apalachicola River but unravels Georgia's long-term water plans for the Atlanta region. ...more

January 13, 2009

Recently, in commenting on the planned four-laning of Ridge Road from Little Road to Moon Lake Road, we lamented the fact that another year was passing and Pasco County seemed no closer to winning permit approval to extend Ridge Road. It would be pushed east, from its current terminus at its junction with Moon Lake Road, to the Suncoast Parkway and perhaps later to U.S. 41. If it ever gets built the Ridge Road Extension would provide a badly needed third major east-west evacuation route out of West Pasco. ...more

January 7, 2009

Federal environmental officials have given Pasco County a checklist of 10 items to complete in hopes of moving forward with the permitting of the county's long-sought eastern extension of Ridge Road. ...more

January 4, 2009

Federal environmental regulators said this week they're considering re-issuing the suspended development permit for Cypress Creek Town Center, where construction was halted in February after repeated Clean Water Act violations. ...more

December 18, 2008

The developers of Cypress Creek Town Center have been sued for alleged unpaid wages by the company that did earth-moving on the 510-acre site. ...more

October 24, 2008

U.S. Special Forces soldiers freed a kidnapped American working for the Army Corps of Engineers during a nighttime mission last week - a rare hostage rescue in a country where ransom abductions have become increasingly common. ...more

October 22, 2008

Five public meetings are planned next month by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on its operations of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin. ...more

September 22, 2008

When residents of several neighborhoods near Orlando International Airport go to bed, they wonder what most homeowners don't: Is there a bomb under my house? ...more

September 18, 2008

Patience is wearing thin among those demanding to know whether their backyards are cluttered with World War II-era ammunition. ...more

September 13, 2008

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun releasing water from Lake Okeechobee after record-breaking rainfall and ahead of the storms that are looming in the Atlantic Ocean. ...more

September 7, 2008