After the 2004 hurricane season, when Florida communities needed a place to dump tons of yard waste, the state agreed to let rural landowners spread up to two feet of chopped-up debris across their property without getting a permit for solid-waste disposal. ...more

August 15, 2008

It's getting into the heart of August and hurricane season and tropical depressions are lining up out in the Atlantic, so I shouldn't have been all that surprised when an angry wind whipped through the house and circled around my head. ...more

August 13, 2008

A pair of tropical waves in the Atlantic Ocean have the potential to become tropical depressions over the next several days, the National Hurricane Center said. ...more

August 11, 2008

Tampa Bay Water officials plan to limit water storage this year in the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir so engineers can better investigate cracks in the wall. ...more

August 6, 2008

With a third of the hurricane season in the books and the busiest 10 weeks ahead, William Gray and his team of forecasters have boosted the number of storms expected this season ...more

August 5, 2008

In 2006 and 2007, I suggested that our 'hurricane' insurance crisis is beyond the ability of the private market. ...more

August 1, 2008

Despite misgivings, members of the state Cabinet voted 2-1 to pay $224 million to financier Warren Buffett in exchange for his pledge to buy up to $4 billion worth of state bonds in the event of massive property damage this hurricane season. ...more

July 30, 2008

Florida has voted Republican six out of the past seven presidential elections, but unless John McCain begins paying more attention to the state's most important issues, he can't assume it will turn red for him in November. ...more

July 29, 2008

The Avon Park Housing Authority cut a deal with the owners of Ridgedale Apartments and expects to take the complex over July 31. ...more

July 24, 2008

Tropical Storm Dolly could be the year's first hurricane to strike the United States as the strengthening storm emerges into the welcoming environment of the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 21, 2008