Gag grouper season in the Gulf of Mexico will reopen on April 1 - although anglers must obey new bag limits. ...more

March 28, 2009

GO FISHING is a look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. ...more

January 11, 2009

HERNANDO COUNTY SPORTS BRIEFS ...more

December 31, 2008

Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a spending bill Saturday. ...more

September 28, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The welcome sign is going out to oil and gas companies off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. ...more

September 27, 2008

The House, responding to growing public demand for more domestic energy, voted Wednesday to end a quarter-century ban on oil and natural gas drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, giving Republicans a major victory on energy policy. ...more

September 25, 2008

The House voted late Tuesday to open waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling but only 50 or more miles out to sea and only if a state agrees to energy development off its shore. ...more

September 17, 2008

Powerful acoustic devices used by oil companies searching for new sources of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico have had no discernible effect on endangered sperm whales living in those waters, according to a federally funded study released Thursday. ...more

August 22, 2008

Energy companies bid hundreds of millions of dollars Wednesday to explore for oil and natural gas beneath 1.8 million acres in the western Gulf of Mexico, while looking forward to the possibility of future drilling in federal waters now off-limits. ...more

August 21, 2008

The national debate over opening more offshore areas to oil and gas exploration has begged the question: Just what are the companies doing with the tens of millions of acres they're already leasing from the federal government? ...more

July 21, 2008