Next week, our country will observe two celebrations, the 234th birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps on Nov. 10 and Veterans Day on Nov. 11.The Marine Corps birthday is the biggest celebration of the year for Marines. ...more

November 7, 2009

The local hotel industry continued its slump in August, with revenue down from a year ago. ...more

October 20, 2009

Jennifer Faircloth and Jesse Lingerfelt selected the Florida Strawberry Festival for their first date four years ago. So when festival promoters announced an essay contest to pick a couple to wed at the 2009 event, Jennifer picked up a pen. ...more

March 11, 2009

four George Washingtons were burning a hole in my pocket for that long-awaited in-flight Scotch. No change required. I figured I was doing the flight attendant a favor by offering exact change. The Continental flight attendant nixed me, though. "Only credit cards and coupons," he snarled, waving one of those infernal wands - an automated credit card scanner. ...more

March 1, 2009

Local hotel industry officials have requested a study of the viability of building a meeting or conference center in Tampa's West Shore district to draw business to an area where hotel room inventory will grow in 18 months from 8,600 rooms to 10,000. ...more

February 6, 2009

Local hotel industry officials have requested a study of the viability of building a meeting or conference center in Tampa's West Shore district to draw new business to the area where hotel room inventory will grow in 18 months from 8,600 rooms to 10,000. ...more

February 5, 2009

An account is available at Mid Florida Federal Credit Union to help a family of five whose house caught fire Monday afternoon. ...more

February 5, 2009

Tourism Coordinator Sue Rupe today will be driving to the I-95 Florida welcome center, just outside Jacksonville, and set up a small table to greet people coming across the state line. ...more

January 30, 2009

Linda and Bob Phillips are no strangers to volunteer work. They volunteered to help out the last time the Super Bowl visited Tampa in 2001. And they were in line this morning to pick up their uniforms for this year's event. ...more

January 15, 2009

Eighteen families are temporarily staying at a local hotel and two other families are staying with friends and family following a fire this weekend at the Windermere Lakes Apartment complex. ...more

December 15, 2008