TAMPA In Florida, Santa doesn't need Prancer, Dancer, Donder or Blitzen when he has an Evinrude, Mercury, Johnson or even a pair of oars. ...more

December 5, 2007

Going to Fort DeSoto Park? You may need extra cash. State transportation officials say tolls at the bridge leading to the park, and at two plazas nearby, will need to rise to finance the replacement of two bridges. ...more

November 29, 2007

South Tampa residents Ted Hull and Jackie Trigg met with Stevie Wonder in Atlanta this month to have the R&B legend autograph a Braille version of Hull's book "The Wonder Years." ...more

November 28, 2007

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Bill Miller. ...more

October 17, 2007

Pinellas County commissioners on Tuesday night cleared the way for bigger hotels on the beachfront. ...more

October 17, 2007

CLEARWATER - Pinellas County commissioners are poised to allow developers to build more hotel rooms on the beach, where condominium conversions have eroded the county's stock of rental rooms. ...more

October 16, 2007

The proposed amendment to Florida's constitution called Hometown Democracy is a few hundred thousand petitions short of making it to the 2008 ballot. Yet debate is already raging over the plan to give voters – and not city or county commissioners – the last word on local growth plans. Early Tuesday, about 250 builders, land-use lawyers, planners and media types paid $39 a plate for the Tampa Bay Business Journal's breakfast face-off on the issue at Pepin Hospitality Centre. ...more

September 11, 2007

Susan Service spends hours at her kitchen table sorting through bags of seashells. When she can't find just what she wants, she dyes shells or paints them. She may even cook up a trout dinner for her and her husband, Richard, so she can dress up shells with the tiny fish bones. ...more

September 8, 2007

CLEARWATER - Thanks to the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, American troops in Iraq will be getting a bus load of food, snacks and other items. ...more

September 5, 2007