Diminished funds to Avon Park's Housing Authority's Section 8 program has led them to transfer it to Lakeland's Housing Authority beginning Jan. 1. ...more

December 12, 2009

The city council approved a resolution Nov. 3 to increase residential water rates. ...more

November 11, 2009

The city council is expected to vote today on a proposal to expand Tampa's anti-discrimination laws to include transgender individuals. The proposed ordinance, if approved, would extend laws prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations based on sexual orientation, sex, race and religion to include "gender identity or expression" as a protected class. ...more

November 5, 2009

The Pasco County School Board is putting the finishing touches on a manual that will set guidelines for implementing its school concurrency policy. The board will hold a public hearing at 9:30 a.m. today on the concurrency implementation procedures manual. ...more

October 20, 2009

City commissioners are hoping the federal stimulus package might help stem turnover at the city's police department. ...more

May 27, 2009

A bill is headed to the governor that would ban local agencies from charging people who cause car accidents for emergency response services. ...more

May 1, 2009

From city fire chiefs to residents grateful for the paramedics who rushed to their aid, hundreds of people began speaking today at a Pinellas County Commission hearing to comment on a plan to cut emergency rescue costs countywide. ...more

March 20, 2009

South St. Petersburg may not be the most obvious place for real estate investors to make a profit. Homes on some streets are abandoned or dilapidated in low-income neighborhoods tainted by crime. ...more

March 8, 2009

Maybe it's curiosity. Or worry. Or both. A Web site launched by the White House last month to allow citizens to keep track of where stimulus dollars are going is getting 3,000 hits per second and already has registered more than 150 million hits altogether. ...more

March 7, 2009

The city of Port Richey took another step Tuesday toward once again putting its future in the hands of voters. City Council approved on first reading an ordinance calling for a special referendum on whether to dissolve the city and the process that would follow should the referendum pass. ...more

February 28, 2009