House foundations aren't all they're cracked up to be, Pasco County commissioners discussed this week. ...more

February 4, 2009

Divers call north and central Florida "cave country" - for the dozens of springs and sinkholes that lead to networks of caverns and twisting tunnels, some hundreds of feet deep and miles long. ...more

January 30, 2009

Pasco County could force home builders to strengthen the foundations of future homes, according to a proposal aimed at reducing sinkhole claims and avoiding settling damage to homes built on soft soils. ...more

January 28, 2009

Hillsborough County deputies have closed a road in the Plant City area because of a sinkhole. ...more

January 23, 2009

A small, picturesque sinkhole near Morris Bridge Road will soon begin sending millions of gallons of water a day to the Tampa Bypass Canal, which will be available to help quench the region's drought-heightened thirst. ...more

January 22, 2009

A small, picturesque sinkhole near Morris Bridge Road will soon begin sending millions of gallons of water a day to the Tampa Bypass Canal that will be available to help quench the region's drought-heightened thirst. The pumping expected to start late this month or early in February should help Tampa Bay region's water supply, but pumping the Morris Bridge sinkhole in 2000 and 2001 caused wells of some nearby residents to go dry. ...more

January 18, 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

Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Sole and District Director Deborah Getzoff have some explaining to do. ...more

December 19, 2008

Hernando County is downstream of a disaster waiting to happen and residents should be paying attention, environmentalists say. ...more

December 18, 2008

Hernando residents should be paying attention to a plan to bring a landfill to Dade City, environmentalists say. ...more

December 17, 2008