County commissioners at their Tuesday meeting approved higher fares for THE Bus, Hernando County's mass transit system. ...more

September 17, 2008

Government employees who make $65,000 or more annually will be asked to forego any salary raises this year. ...more

August 29, 2008

Government employees who make $65,000 or more annually will be asked to forego any salary raises this year. ...more

August 29, 2008

Hernando County Fire Rescue Chief Mike Nickerson Tuesday will recommend county commissioners lower his EMS budget for 2009 from 0.5839 mills to 0.5598 mills, a reduction of $138,000 annually. ...more

August 4, 2008

The health care industry is not noticing the slumping market. It seems to be happening without the participation of local hospitals, assisted-living homes and medical offices. They, in turn, are expanding their work forces. ...more

August 1, 2008

AFTER GETTING $40,871 PAYOFF FROM HERNANDO COUNTY ...more

July 5, 2008

The Human Resources Department on Wednesday already started addressing some of the concerns highlighted by an audit by sending 30 to 40 staffers who work with workers' compensation claims to training classes. ...more

June 26, 2008

STAFF TRAINING BEGAN WEDNESDAY ...more

June 25, 2008

Anthony Allred, a News Channel 8 photojournalist, was arrested Monday morning and charged with driving under the influence. ...more

June 17, 2008

SEBRING — The formal legal process for the appeals of two county employees for exchanging inappropriate and often sexually explicit instant-messages will begin in six days, on Monday. Jim McCollum, the attorney for ex-county employees Jared Lee and Treasa Handley, will take sworn statements, recorded verbatim by a legal stenographer, from four people, starting at 9 a.m. in a conference room at the Highlands County Government Center. Handley and Lee were dismissed more than five months ago for sending thousands of personal instant messages to each other, and others, on their county computers during working hours. Many of the messages were sexually explicit, and all of them are public record, accessible to anyone, with a request to either the county's public information officer or the Highlands County Clerk of Courts office. ...more

June 16, 2008