When employees at Hillsborough County Animal Services saw the budget cuts the department faced last spring, they felt their core missions of public safety and preventing animal cruelty were finished. ...more

December 30, 2009

A stakeholders meeting is scheduled for Jan. 13 at the Sebring Civic Center to discuss plans to preserve Highlands County's scrub habitat. ...more

December 28, 2009

Pasco County commissioners want to get to the bottom of the oil drilling issue, so they are planning a local workshop in January. ...more

December 27, 2009

Tampa's Sacred Heart Catholic Church, is looking for descendants of its founding families as part of its 150th anniversary. ...more

December 27, 2009

County commissioners will start 2010 by figuring out the top issues facing them in the new year. ...more

December 27, 2009

Money magazine's Web site has named Hernando County as one of the top 25 counties in the nation for job growth during the last eight years. ...more

December 25, 2009

County commissioner calls magazine article 'absurd.' ...more

December 24, 2009

George Forte intends to mark the bubble next to "no" if a penny sales tax turns up on the November ballot. ...more

December 23, 2009

Calling it too cumbersome right now, county commissioners agreed to suspend efforts to craft a performance measurement program designed to monitor the efficiency of county departments. ...more

December 23, 2009

The only mosquitoes killed so far by an expensive airplane purchased by Hillsborough County for pest control in 2003 were the few that may have smashed into its windshield on training flights. ...more

December 22, 2009