Warm water spreading across the tropical Pacific Ocean has provided a major benefit for Florida by blunting the hurricane season. ...more

November 7, 2009

Five years ago today, Hurricane Charley veered from its long-forecast target of the Tampa area and rammed into Charlotte County as a Category 4 storm. ...more

August 13, 2009

Private insurers are taking another 110,000 homeowners policies out of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp., state insurance regulators announced late Thursday. ...more

November 15, 2008

Private insurers are taking another 110,000 homeowners policies out of state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp., state insurance regulators announced late Thursday. ...more

November 14, 2008

The federal government owns about 1,700 acres in Highlands County and is asking for public input on how to best manage the property at a meeting tonight. ...more

September 25, 2008

Fall arrives today, or so the calendar says. It may mean something to the rest of the country, but in Florida, where the peak of the sultry hurricane season passed less than two weeks ago, summer drags on. ...more

September 22, 2008

The 2008 hurricane season is moving at a faster pace than usual, and its peak isn't even until Wednesday. ...more

September 5, 2008

Hurricane Ike could yo-yo in strength the next few days but arrive as a Category 3 storm not far from the Florida shore by Tuesday afternoon. ...more

September 5, 2008

Hurricane Ike could yo-yo in strength the next few days but arrive as a Category 3 storm not far from the Florida shore by Tuesday afternoon. ...more

September 4, 2008

Edgar Stokes, chairman of the Highlands County commissioners, kicked off the county's investigation into spraying pesticides, by both airplanes and trucks, to battle the expected hordes of mosquitoes that will probably descend on the county in the wake of Fay and the three new tropical storms headed toward or near the Florida peninsula. ...more

September 3, 2008