Today marks the start of a new year, which will be marked by two municipalities searching for city managers, the addition of several schools to help ease overcrowding and continued work on Pasco's clogged roads. Here's our take on 2008's dominant issues: ...more

December 31, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board has announced principals for two new schools that will open in August. ...more

December 19, 2007

Something lay dead up ahead. The seventh-graders from Rushe Middle School craned their necks, trying to guess which of the many creatures that call Cross Bar Ranch home had met its demise near the unpaved road that winds through the 12,000-acre preserve. ...more

December 15, 2007

For nearly four decades now, railroads have been a rare sight in the West Pasco area. But the new Central Pasco and Gulf Railroad will make tracks to Crews Lake Wilderness Park later this month. ...more

December 14, 2007

LAKELAND – Five people were arrested Tuesday night and charged with underage drinking at a house party on Garden Chase Drive, authorities said. ...more

November 7, 2007

Some students have to transfer from one school to another, leaving behind friends and familiar surroundings. ...more

November 7, 2007

Kyle Hall grew up with a twin brother, but to friends the 19-year-old former high school football player was unique. ...more

November 6, 2007

A Lakeland teenager is dead after attending two house parties during which underage drinking and possibly drugs may have been allowed, Polk County deputies said. ...more

November 5, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Committees drawing proposed attendance boundaries for two new schools didn't take long to find out that Chris Williams, the school district's planning director, was right when he said the task is more difficult than it might first appear. ...more

November 2, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board approved a contract Tuesday evening to buy 30 acres in Shady Hills that would become the site for a future high school. ...more

October 17, 2007