Many college graduates will soon be wondering whether they should aggressively pay off their student loan debt or let it linger and make monthly payments for the next 10 years or even decades to come. ...more

June 29, 2008

A German grocery chain, known for low prices and a philosophy of "incredible value every day," is planning a store west of the University of South Florida. ...more

June 21, 2008

UNIVERSITY AREA - A German grocery chain, known for low prices and a philosophy of "incredible value every day," is planning a store west of the University of South Florida. Aldi, which is opening several locations in the Tampa Bay area, plans a store at University Plaza at Fletcher Avenue and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard. The Tampa Bay area stores are part of the company's Central Florida expansion, announced in August 2006. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA - The Tampa Bay metro area lost 13,800 jobs from April 2007 to April of this year, but its unemployment rate improved slightly from March to April, new data released today show. ...more

May 28, 2008

Longtime oysterman Keith Millender sees every shower taken or car washed in metropolitan Atlanta as a small threat to his family, which has harvested seafood from northwest Florida's Apalachicola Bay for generations. ...more

May 26, 2008

A new study ranks the Bay area the worst of 50 metro areas in the country for teen drivers. ...more

May 10, 2008

TAMPA - A new study ranks the Bay area worst out of 50 metro areas in the country for teen drivers. ...more

May 9, 2008

The yearlong decline in the price of homes sold in Florida was the longest since the Great Depression, and at least one group of economists is revising its target date for a turnaround in the Tampa Bay area from late 2008 to mid-2009. ...more

January 25, 2008

Real estate agent Tony Rojas loves his job. But there's one thing that drives him crazy: unrealistic sellers who insist on asking buyers to pay boom-year sales prices despite profound drops in area home values. ...more

January 23, 2008

TAMPA - Real estate agent Tony Rojas loves his job. But there's one thing that drives him crazy: unrealistic sellers who insist on asking buyers to pay boom-year sales prices despite profound drops in area home values. ...more

January 22, 2008