The Florida Governmental Utility Authority has taken over water and sewer operations of a private utility for subdivisions located primarily along the State Road 54 corridor. ...more

December 31, 2009

Florida Governmental Utility Authority has taken over water and sewer operations of a private utility for subdivisions primarily along the S.R. 54 corridor. ...more

December 29, 2009

Because jail costs are coming in less than anticipated for the first two months of this fiscal year, the county's purchasing director said the jail budget should realize a $412,787 decrease, bringing the total budged amount down from $11.3 million to roughly $10.9 million. ...more

December 13, 2009

Four years ago, Pasco County commissioners let Florida turnpike officials put off planning for a link between the Suncoast Parkway and the county's planned Ridge Road extension. ...more

December 11, 2009

Hillsborough County is one of five finalists in an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to figure out what qualities make the best teachers and how to measure those qualities in the classroom. ...more

August 20, 2009

On Monday, the governing board of Tampa Bay used one hand to hold its collective nose and plunged the other into the pockets of the people in Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties who consume the water the regional wholesale utility produces. Then the board voted to spend an estimated $125 million over the next five years to repair the many cracks that have developed in the utility's 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Reservoir. ...more

June 23, 2009

Operation Helping Hand recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. ...more

June 17, 2009

A troubled Tampa charter school that serves homeless and at-risk children has asked the Hillsborough County School District to take over its operations. ...more

June 9, 2009

Faced with a potential budget deficit of $100 million-plus - and growing - Hillsborough County officials confirmed Friday that they are considering cutting the county payroll by as many as 1,000 positions over the next two years. ...more

March 28, 2009

Faced with a potential budget deficit of $100 million-plus _ and growing _ Hillsborough County officials confirmed Friday they are considering cutting the county payroll by as many as 1,000 positions over the next two years. ...more

March 27, 2009