The Hernando County Public Works Department announced Friday that Barnett Road had been temporarily and partially closed due to flooding. ...more

July 3, 2009

The Hernando County Public Works Department announced Friday that Barnett Road has been temporarily and partially closed due to flooding. ...more

July 2, 2009

Motorists and pedestrians in the southeastern part of Hillsborough County will get a chance to voice their concerns at an upcoming gathering. ...more

April 15, 2009

The city of Avon Park has terminated its water and wastewater foreman Freddie Renfro and has given its longtime public works coordinator Ted Long the option to retire, resign or be fired, according to city officials. ...more

April 7, 2009

Starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, personnel from the Hillsborough County Public Works Department will close the inside eastbound and westbound lanes of Bearss Avenue at Livingston Avenue and the southbound left-hand turn lane of Livingston Avenue. The closure is scheduled to continue until 5 p.m. Monday. The closures are necessary to complete repairs to a sinkhole that formed in the median of the road. The county has completed preliminary efforts to stabilize the sinkhole with sand, but needs to complete the repairs by grouting the hole. ...more

April 6, 2009

Work crews have plugged most of the sinkholes that closed six area roads. ...more

March 24, 2009

A car found in a Gainesville neighborhood with a dead body in the back seat had been ticketed seven times by city parking enforcement. ...more

February 25, 2009

Hillsborough County's Public Works Department will host its last public meeting on a proposed canal dredging project that could affect hundreds of waterfront homeowners around the Bay area. ...more

January 15, 2009

Starting Oct. 1, the city's Public Works Department will conduct brush and yard debris pickup on a regular schedule. ...more

September 17, 2008

Starting Oct. 1, the city's Public Works Department will conduct brush and yard debris pick-up on a regular schedule. On Sept. 9, City Council gave its OK to the new schedule, designed to cover the city on a regular, systematic manner similar to how trash collection works. ...more

September 17, 2008