After years of lax growth controls, Pasco County officials charted a refreshing new course more than two years ago by approving a much-needed rewrite of the comprehensive land use plan, the road map for orderly development. ...more

December 3, 2008

We may never know whether Gov. Sarah Palin is conducting the public's business on one of the non-governmental accounts she uses. ...more

October 26, 2008

John McCain's decision to anoint Sarah Palin as his running mate looks eccentric for many reasons. Not the least is economic principle. Thanks in part to Palin, Alaska's economy is built on two things that McCain has spent the last few years railing against. ...more

September 11, 2008

Let's face it. John McCain's a loner with a stern, "it's-a-dangerous-world" message and fairly cold eyes. He isn't charismatic. And no one can accuse him of being a sunny guy. In fact, he's better known for his short, hot temper. ...more

August 30, 2008

Rachel Rosales and TK Erwin finished first in The Last Frontier to win CBS' "The Amazing Race" and the reality TV show's $1 million prize. ...more

January 22, 2008

The New Frontier casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday, giving a violent end to the second property to open on the Las Vegas Strip. ...more

November 14, 2007

SEBRING — Mike Edmonston is determined to solve the mystery raised by a photo sent to him by his father. It shows two large sea caves opening just above the low-tide waterline on the rocky shore of a small, uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Panama. It's what you can't see in the photo that fascinates him. The absence of a cave diver's safety line anchored at either opening tells him chances are nobody's ever dove into the caves. For sure, Edmonston knows that nobody has ever charted or named, much less filmed, those remote underwater caves. That's going to change early next year when he and wife, Beth, both certified cave divers, explore that unknown underwater world. "We don't know if the caves go in 10 feet or 10,000 feet," he said. "But we're going to find out." ...more

October 16, 2007