When I was in my 20s, I had an 11-foot sailboat that I would take out on a nearby lake in upstate New York. That was the extent of my "nautical knowledge" when my wife and I moved to Tampa in 2007. ...more

November 14, 2009

A huge estate garden and garden of hybrid tea roses are among highlights of Dade City Garden Club's Fourth Annual Fall Garden Tour and Plant Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. ...more

November 7, 2009

Deputies responding to an argument at a New Port Richey home Sunday morning found something completely unexpected – a live alligator in a fish tank. ...more

March 30, 2009

Full-tilt pumping at wellfields in Pasco and Hillsborough counties will lower nearby lake levels and affect wetlands but likely won't bring a return to environmental damage seen before 2003, when the region's water supply relied solely on groundwater. ...more

March 29, 2009

Full-tilt pumping at wellfields in Pasco and Hillsborough counties will lower nearby lake levels and affect wetlands but likely won't bring a return to environmental damage seen before 2003, when the region's water supply relied solely on groundwater. ...more

March 28, 2009

When John Silva opened his St. Petersburg variety store about 9 a.m. Sunday, he brought Gertrude with him. ...more

December 7, 2008

Five public meetings are planned next month by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on its operations of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin. ...more

September 22, 2008

DUNDEE - Firefighters swam across a canal today to reach a fire at a rental resort that eventually destroyed a mobile home and a two-story wood house, Polk County Fire Rescue said. ...more

June 19, 2008

SEBRING — So just how little water could remain in lakes Anoka and Placid without disrupting the lakes' environment? How low can Lake Verona go without making Donaldson Park any less enjoyable? The Southwest Florida Water Management District, which monitors those lakes as well as lakes Tulane, Denton and Angelo, wants to get public input Tuesday evening on that and other questions as the district determines new rules on the lakes' minimum water levels. Those levels are set by SWFWMD to determine the point where further drops in the lake level –– from natural causes or from people drawing water out –– could affect the surrounding environment as well as the lake's recreational use. As Chief Environmental Scientist Douglas Leeper wrote in a letter from SWFWMD's Resource Conservation and Development Department, the minimum levels "protect lakes from impacts associated with ground water and surface water withdrawals." ...more

November 19, 2007