Squeals erupted from a nearly hidden shoreline in the southern portion of Tampa Bay as high school students' bare legs hit the chilly waters of Bishop Harbor. ...more

March 18, 2009

A Federal Aviation Administration investigator was on the scene Sunday of a plane crash that happened at Golf Hammock Saturday. ...more

December 14, 2008

Straight from the kitchens of area homes, recycled cooking oil is powering a few Pasco County vehicles. ...more

November 29, 2008

Chalk up another casualty of the slow housing market. Construction on phase 3 of Hernando Oaks, which includes 142 lots, has been stalled. And that has prompted county commissioners to issue a $5 million performance bond against the developer to ensure the work will get done. ...more

November 12, 2008

Contractor fails to make required improvements. ...more

November 12, 2008

It's grease! It's fuel! No, it's both! Straight from the kitchens of area homes, recycled cooking oil is powering a few Pasco County vehicles. ...more

November 5, 2008

Tampa Police Chief Stephen Hogue and his department brought an amphibious tank, a police horse and two canine units to Heritage Isles' third annual National Night Out on Aug. 5, but they had a hard time upstaging the balloon man. ...more

August 13, 2008

Residential development at Wiregrass Ranch may be in limbo, but that's not stopping the Porter family from pushing forward with a new north-south road across their property linking State Road 56 and State Road 54. ...more

June 18, 2008

HERITAGE ISLES - The beleaguered golf course community has asked its management team from Saddlebrook Resort to give up control of Heritage Isles' money-losing restaurant. A year after Dempsey Resort Management Inc. reworked the menu and improved the food, the restaurant is losing more money than ever. DRMI closed the restaurant this month and is serving food and drinks from an outdoor tiki bar next to the community's pool through the summer. ...more

June 6, 2008

HERITAGE ISLES - Less than a year into its management contract, Dempsey Resort Management is in a similar position to its predecessors: trying to explain mounting losses in this New Tampa golf course community. Dempsey, which runs Pasco's Saddlebrook Resort, brought in its executive team to turn around Heritage Isles. The group came onboard in summer 2007 after community leaders fired the two previous management companies. ...more

February 21, 2008