Hurricane Bill weakened slightly early today but still threatened to flood Bermuda's coastlines and generate dangerous waves and riptides along the eastern U.S. coast. ...more

August 21, 2009

The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for Pasco County, which is in effect 2 to 8 a.m. Thursday. A three- to five-hour period of extremely cold weather will settle in the area tonight into Thursday morning with temperatures bottoming out in the upper 20s inland and to the lower 30s near the coast, a news release from Pasco County Emergency Management stated. . Winds are forecast to be 5 mph then becoming light toward morning. Combined with the cold lower temperatures Pasco residents can anticipate wind chill as low as 19 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit. ...more

November 26, 2008

For nearly seven hours, at intervals of about six minutes, flight engineers pop open the floor hatch. ...more

August 30, 2008

Thunderstorms roll over West Central Florida 90 to 100 days a year. With that many, it's little wonder the region is called the lightning capital of the country. ...more

July 7, 2008

TAMPA - Thunderstorms roll over West Central Florida 90 to 100 days a year. With that many, it's little wonder the region is called the lightning capital of the country. ...more

July 6, 2008

Transportation officials and motorists got the news they'd been fearing Thursday: Interstate 75 in Manatee County will be a mess for a month and a half. ...more

June 6, 2008

SUNCOAST NEWS STAFF REPORT Doctors have long known cooling is a way to protect body tissue from injury in people suffering heart attacks or similar medical emergencies. The ways doctors have been using to cool patients, however, can take hours to lower body temperature to a level at which tissue is protected. ...more

May 7, 2008

The New Year's Eve celebrations ignited another round of complaints to county officials and the Sheriff's Office. Local leaders in turn explain how they are powerless to defuse the situation. A state task force is supposed to submit a report by the end of January offering recommendations for possible statewide fireworks regulations. ...more

January 5, 2008

The president's top science adviser said Thursday that there is no solid scientific evidence that the widely cited goal of limiting future global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels is necessary to avert climate change. The assertion runs counter to that of many scientists as well as the Noble-prize winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ...more

October 19, 2007