The city budget will grow by almost 2 percent next year, Mayor Pam Iorio said today, and that is despite property tax reductions that have reduced revenue by a total of $28 million the past two years. ...more

August 7, 2008

The milky brown stream flows west, through a maze of underground culverts, stormwater drains and open canals lined with trash and dead fish, to the small piece of property where Harlan and Virginia Farmer settled nearly a half century ago. ...more

July 26, 2008

SEBRING - Heavy rains brought a return visit of the walking catfish into the parking lot behind the Shoppes at Shelby Crossing on Tuesday. Watch a video of the catfish in action. ...more

July 9, 2008

SEBRING – Rebecka Bell thought something was fishy as she sat in her boyfriend's car at the Shoppes at Shelby Crossing parking lot. Looking out the car window Sunday, she spotted a fish, then another and then another. "It was the weirdest thing because neither one of us have seen anything like that before," Bell said of about 30 catfish scattered about the parking lot and on the pavement behind the shopping center. Most of them were moving, she said. A man was scooping them up with a piece of cardboard to return them to the storm drain. ...more

July 7, 2008

The sun teased Pasco County on Sunday, peeking out several times. But the sky was mostly gray, and the rain poured on already waterlogged lawns and into taxed drainage systems. ...more

June 23, 2008

Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price. ...more

December 18, 2007