An advisory panel recommended Monday that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 17, 2009

An advisory panel recommended today that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever, and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 16, 2009

Now that the governing board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District has further tightened water restrictions, local governments need to increase their efforts by levying drought surcharges on customers. ...more

April 2, 2009

It's New Year's Eve, and there is a dance at the West Tampa Convention Center designed to take partygoers back in time. ...more

December 31, 2008

Several of the city's old landfills are buried beneath public schools. Pizzo Elementary, Roland Park Middle School, Lockhart Elementary and Young Middle Magnet School were built on or near land once used to bury Tampa's garbage. ...more

December 21, 2008

PLANT CITY Hugh Gramling of Plant City has been elected president of the Southern Region, International Plant Propagators Society. ...more

November 6, 2008

This summer, Arley Smude of Plant City graduated with honors from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. With a major in international affairs, it makes sense he would want to experience the world. In June, he and friend Steve Hollenkamp of Brandon embarked on a European bicycle journey, starting July 22 in northern Greece. ...more

August 27, 2008

Jennifer Closshey, one of two Plant City residents on the Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board, has been elected its secretary. ...more

June 4, 2008

Last month J. Bernard Machen, president of the University of Florida, sent shockwaves throughout Florida's agricultural community. ...more

February 13, 2008

The chamber of commerce chairman's gavel passed to Paul Hackney of Sunshine State Federal Savings and Loan Association in a ceremony that included a celebration of the organization's accomplishments of 2007. ...more

February 2, 2008