A thick bed of foul-smelling muck blankets the bottom of a dozen canals along Old Tampa Bay, caused by decades of stormwater runoff and overdevelopment. ...more

December 14, 2009

Tampa and residents have wrangled for years over whose responsibility it is to clean up the canals, many of them carved into the coastline by developers in the early-1960s after the West Shore area was annexed into the city from Hillsborough County. ...more

December 13, 2009

Fog is affecting visibility along the Interstate 4 corridor as well as in Lakeland and between Plant City and downtown Tampa, News Channel 8 meteorologist Jennifer Hill said. However, lingering smoke from a brush fire was affecting drivers on I-4 and Old Polk City Road earlier this morning but had dissipated by 6 a.m., TBO.com traffic reporter Alicia Roberts said. ...more

March 10, 2009

With an $800,000 appropriation from the state, the Highlands County Department of Natural Resources will begin dredging residential canals running off Lake Istokpoga. ...more

March 7, 2009

Dozens of potential future puppy owners flocked to the Suncoast Animal League this morning, hoping for a shot to adopt a pack of puppies rescued from a small town in Georgia this month. ...more

December 27, 2008

Divers searching for a sign of Caylee Anthony on Thursday found a plastic bag with toys and small bones weighted down by bricks, bounty hunter Leonard Padilla said. ...more

November 13, 2008

When my three daughters were still living at home, I'd get the same burning question from at least one of them late in the afternoon each day. ...more

November 5, 2008

Well, you can stall for only so long. Come Tuesday, like it or not, you are going to have to go down to your precinct and pencil in the bubbles. ...more

November 2, 2008

Figures lie and liars figure, goes the saying. It was ever thus, since the invention of the statistic. Luckily, that history-shaping development almost certainly sparked the skepticism gene to life, energizing our hubris detector. ...more

October 12, 2008

Shrimpers and oystermen lost their boats to the muck. Tourist destinations on the coast that should be bustling at the start of convention season are flattened. Lingering power outages are keeping offices empty and restaurants closed from Texas through the Midwest. ...more

September 20, 2008