TAMPA - Florida's unemployment rate surged in May to 5.5 percent, its highest rate since January 2003. ...more

June 20, 2008

There's a plethora of websites offering advice on choosing a hospital. Many others rate medical services using a variety of criteria – from patient surveys to government data. Here's a sampling: ...more

May 29, 2008

The Hillsborough County Department of Aging Services offers seniors leisure activities, field trips, educational classes and lunch at senior centers in Brandon, Plant City, Ruskin, Lutz, Wimauma and two locations in Tampa, Riverside and West Shore. ...more

May 21, 2008

The owner of a Palmetto assisted-living facility has given up her license after an 85-year-old man was found living there with an untreated cancerous tumor that covered nearly half his face. ...more

January 22, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Unemployment On Rise The unemployment rate in the Bay area and the state continues to rise. According to statistics from the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, the unemployment rate in Florida rose to 4.7 percent in December, compared with 4.3 percent in November. The unemployment rate was 3.3 percent in December 2006. ...more

January 19, 2008

The Florida Agency on Health Care Administration, in a written statement issued Dec. 14, said it listened to community concerns when making its decision to allow South Bay Hospital to relocate to Big Bend Road in Riverview. ...more

December 26, 2007

Help for relative caregivers, uninsured children and residents who are aged, disabled, homeless or mentally ill topped the list of needs during Hillsborough County's first community legislative summit Thursday. ...more

November 30, 2007

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has revoked the license of a Hillsborough County adult family care home and fined its operator, Daphne Jones, $20,000 after an agency investigation of allegations that she moved residents from her sprawling riverfront home to a cramped boarding home in West Tampa. ...more

November 9, 2007

SUN CITY CENTER - About 1,000 people turned out today for a public hearing on South Bay Hospital's proposal to close its operation in this retirement community and move about six miles north to a facility it wants to build on Big Bend Road in Riverview. ...more

October 30, 2007

When Ed Barnes was looking for a place to move to four years ago, he and his wife, Nancy, chose this retirement community in part because it has a hospital in town. ...more

October 17, 2007