Hillsborough Area Regional Transit ridership fell during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 for the first time since 2002, a 3.1 percent decline compared with a year ago to 12.3 million passengers. ...more

November 3, 2009

Williams Park pool is closed indefinitely. But city parks and recreation officials are reviewing long-range options to reopen it. ...more

August 5, 2009

The Southwest Florida Water Management District and Hernando County will conduct a public workshop next Thursday, focusing on the Centralia and Willow Sink watersheds. ...more

July 26, 2009

The Florida Department of Transportation is giving a heads-up to law enforcement officials and motorists about devices its engineers are placing on Tampa Bay area bridges: the machines are used to measure saltwater levels and pose no threat. ...more

April 30, 2009

the daily newspaper - unless the government grants publishers some urgent and long-overdue regulatory relief. ...more

March 1, 2009

It was a familiar scenario: The run was blue, the sky bluer still, and I was cruising down 8,765-foot Mount Whitehorn in Banff National Park in Canada. Packed powder was flying up from the edges of my snowboard into the just-below-freezing air. I was grinning beneath my ski mask. ...more

January 11, 2009

Recently the Tampa Bay Water (TBW) board voted to initiate litigation against HDR and others regarding an issue with the C.W. (Bill) Young Reservoir. Although we certainly understand the concerns about the cracking in the soil cement, we believe proceeding with litigation at this time is not the best course of action, particularly in light of the following: ...more

December 27, 2008

With former Alaska senator Ted Stevens out of office and fighting to stay out of prison, Congress has the opportunity to end an outrageous expenditure that wastes tax dollars while defiling the largest rainforest in North America. ...more

December 13, 2008

Circuit City Stores filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, heading into the busy holiday season hoping the move will help the nation's second-biggest electronics retailer survive. ...more

November 11, 2008

Dinosaur experts bust up prehistoric party theory ...more

November 8, 2008