Pasco County Fire Rescue had hoped to be in its new Station 16 before the end of the year. Now it looks like the station on State Road 54 won't be ready until mid-February. ...more

January 22, 2009

County fire officials are once again recommending that an advanced life-support ambulance be moved full time from a Lutz fire station to the much poorer minority community of Progress Village. ...more

January 22, 2009

Hillsborough County fire officials are once again recommending that an advanced life support ambulance be moved full time from a Lutz fire station to the much poorer minority community of Progress Village. ...more

January 21, 2009

County officials will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3 on a proposal to relocate a fire station from Springhead to Bealsville in eastern Hillsborough. The Springhead Fire Station, at 4503 Coronet Road, is in need of about $500,000 in renovations. County fire officials are pondering the possibility of instead building a station at Bealsville Park, at 5009 Nesmith Road, at a cost of about $1 million. ...more

January 21, 2009

Fire Station One on Dairy Road will now comply with the city's sprinkler ordinance, thanks to a federal grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

January 15, 2009

Nearly a year after floodwaters damaged the downtown fire station, the city council has given the fire department permission to repair the building. ...more

January 14, 2009

Nearly a year after the Zephyrhills Fire Department was flooded out of its downtown fire station, the city may finally be ready to repair the 50-year-old building. ...more

January 10, 2009

The Harder Hall saga was in day No. 77 of the 120-day due diligence period requested by Calibre Investment Group LLC, according to Scott Noethlich, city administrator. ...more

January 5, 2009

A rattlesnake bit a Verizon worker who was filling in a hole in the ground Friday afternoon, officials said. ...more

January 3, 2009

A snake bit a Verizon worker who was closing a hole in the ground this afternoon, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. ...more

January 2, 2009