Builders and developers could soon find it easier to build in cities across Florida. ...more

March 19, 2009

People who live near the site of a planned Wal-Mart at Gandy Boulevard and Lois Avenue want to limit the store's effect on certain nearby roads. ...more

January 13, 2009

A sinkhole swallowed large drilling equipment at a Polk County Utilities project at the proposed Edgehill Water Production Facility, a Polk County Public Safety news release states. ...more

January 9, 2009

Tampa Bay Water will burn for the sake of the environment. The water utility plans to conduct controlled burns at the C.W. "Bill" Young Regional Reservoir through the late fall and winter months. ...more

November 1, 2008

Tampa Bay Water plans to conduct controlled burns at the C.W. Young Regional Reservoir through the late fall and winter months. ...more

October 31, 2008

TAMPA Enterprising thieves have found new venues from which to pilfer: fields of strawberries and groves of oranges. They're not stealing produce, but diesel fuel out of tanks, copper and aluminum wiring out of pump houses and sprinkler heads amid the strawberry plants. ...more

June 3, 2008

The Tampa Tribune recently ran a story about a small band of Hillsborough County residents who are teaming up and gathering petitions against Mosaic Co.'s proposal to expand its Fort Lonesome and Four Corners phosphate mining operations by 1,599 acres. ...more

January 15, 2008

A fire that destroyed a $900,000 home Monday apparently started when the occupant walked away from a barbecue grill after turning up the burners to clean it. ...more

December 11, 2007