Tampa drivers have a need for speed, at least when they hit Interstate 75. A report released Thursday says Tampa Bay area drivers have a heavier foot on "suburban/rural" highways, such as I-75, than drivers on the same type of roads in the seven other metro areas studied across the country. ...more

January 31, 2008

The real estate market is ringing in the New Year on its sourest note yet. ...more

December 31, 2007

The Heartland Parkway has a pulse again. The state Department of Transportation recently committed $5.5 million to study one segment of the proposed toll highway - the part running through Polk County. ...more

December 29, 2007

Amid the bleak housing market news is a bit of good fortune for the Tampa Bay metro area: Sales of existing homes here far outpaced those in the state's other metro areas during the first 10 months of 2007, the Florida Association of Realtors reports. ...more

December 29, 2007

TAMPA - Miami and Tampa led the nation in home price declines in October, according to Standard & Poor's Case Shiller Home Price Index, released today. ...more

December 26, 2007

Sales of existing homes fell in 46 states during the July-September quarter as the housing market's slump worsened, a real estate trade group reported Wednesday. ...more

November 22, 2007

Costs Are Still Low Regarding 'Quarterback Needed In Transit Drive' (Our Opinion, Oct. 14): ...more

October 27, 2007

Twenty years ago, any biologist who proposed turning Lake Okeechobee into a catch-and-release fishery for largemouth bass would have been summarily handcuffed and slapped on a train to California or Massachusetts, or some other foreign land where people thought fish were useful for something other than eating. ...more

October 24, 2007

Unemployment is low and the labor force is still growing, but the area's housing market continues to drag down the local economy, according to a new snapshot of Bay area economic conditions. ...more

October 3, 2007

It's too early to say whether the visit last week from presidential candidate Mitt Romney's son is the first of many stops through this part of Florida, but we hope so. ...more

September 30, 2007