A federal requirement for a new study of the effect of running more freight trains through Polk County could delay a commuter rail project at the center of the state's multimillion deal with CSX Transportation. ...more

February 15, 2008

TAMPA - When storms were hammering most of Florida on Tuesday, the weather service's alert radio system for Melbourne and Orlando went off the air, one for more than four hours. ...more

February 13, 2008

A new catch emerged Wednesday in the state's nearly half-billion-dollar deal with CSX Transportation. ...more

February 9, 2008

Tampa still can't compete with larger cities in the number of upscale hotel rooms. ...more

February 3, 2008

A key step in remaining exclusive as a Super Bowl host site is the ability to be inclusive. ...more

February 1, 2008

Katie Sharer, who endeared herself to many as the 2004 Florida Strawberry Festival queen, has added another crown to her collection. ...more

January 23, 2008

Investigators are trying to determine how a mother and her two young children were overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that spread no farther than a storage room at the motel where they lived. ...more

January 16, 2008

How were a mother and her two small children overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that failed to spread beyond a storage room at the motel where they lived? ...more

January 15, 2008

Saturday night I was driving back from the Orlando area and hit an incredibly large patch of fog between Exit 55 and the Lakeland exits on Interstate 4. I could not see more than a few feet in front of my car. This happened around 1 a.m. I wish authorities would install lighting in this stretch of I-4, because currently lighting stops after Exit 55 (Kissimmee). ...more

January 10, 2008

Pasco Commissioner Pat Mulieri wants the county to consider changing the way it paves its many miles of dirt roads. ...more

January 5, 2008