Police say a low-flying pelican distracted a driver in Texas, causing him to veer off a road and drive his million-dollar sports car into a salt marsh. ...more

November 12, 2009

There were a few who didn't want to get their feet muddy, but most of the 19 youngsters from Riverview's Center Academy were happy to plunge into a restoration project at Newman Branch Creek near the Big Bend Power Station on May 12. ...more

May 20, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent Friday morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. ...more

March 29, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent this morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near the Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. They learned that restoration is a fix for environmental damage perpetrated by human activity, like fish farming, ditching and agriculture. They planted grasses to stabilize the shoreline and held horseshoe crabs and other creatures that live in and around Newman Branch Creek. ...more

March 27, 2009

Over the years, the Southwest Florida Water Management District has protected more than 11,000 acres of ecosystems in the Gulf Coast area of Hernando and Pasco counties. Known as the Weekiwachee Preserve, these and other public lands in the region provide a vast network of invaluable protection to our water resources, water quality and habitat for many Florida species, including black bears. ...more

February 22, 2009

A registered sex offender who lived in Tampa was the man found dead in a parked sport utility vehicle on Wednesday, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

January 30, 2009

A registered sex offender who lived in Tampa was the man found dead in a parked sport utility vehicle on Wednesday, according to the sheriff's office. ...more

January 29, 2009

Deputies are investigating a suspicious death on Bayou Drive. ...more

January 28, 2009

Kristin Sluder wore rubber gloves and a serious look as she measured the nitrates in a water sample dipped from a drainage ditch along the northern edge of Werner Boyce Salt Springs State Park. ...more

January 28, 2009

For soggy land that cleanses polluted runoff and attracts endangered wood storks, white ibis, bald eagles and bobcats, developers will pay $100,000 an acre. ...more

November 26, 2008