Catholic Charities is revising a proposal to set up a tent city and later build temporary shelters, or casitas, for homeless clients looking for jobs and independence. ...more

January 14, 2009

Catholic Charities is revising a proposal to set up a tent city and later build temporary shelters, or casitas, for homeless clients looking for jobs and independence. ...more

January 7, 2009

Progress Energy may need more right of way for transmission lines through Hernando County, but that need will be "limited," the company said Friday. ...more

December 27, 2008

A Tampa man's archaeological expedition led to his arrest Wednesday, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. ...more

December 18, 2008

SEBRING Intermittent plumes of smoke visible in northern Highlands County on Thursday and Friday were from controlled burns, the Division of Forestry reports. ...more

September 26, 2008

TALLAHASSEE (AP) - The values of homes, businesses and other properties across Florida declined $153 billion during the last year, and the murky economic picture isn't expected to improve until sometime in 2009, state officials said. ...more

August 7, 2008

The values of homes, businesses and other properties across Florida declined $153 billion during the past year, and the murky economic picture isn't expected to improve until sometime in 2009, state officials said. ...more

August 7, 2008

The Confederate flag that flutters 30 feet above one of this city's busiest streets still draws a mix of head shakes and shrugs from South Carolina residents. ...more

July 19, 2008

SEBRING — Four tracks mark rip from near the sidewalk, through a lawn and into the dry sand that was once part of Lake Jackson. Multiple pontoon boats were beached just south of Veterans Beach. They're a usual sight for the lake as it hits all-time historic low levels, but the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sees a potential problem here. Officer Erika Zimmerman said these days she often catches some boaters trying to drive their trucks and trailers into the shore of the lake bed to pull the boats out, and sometimes just for the fun of it. What ends up happening, she said, is that they rip up the vegetation, spread oil and gas on the lake bed, leave deep treads and end up polluting the lake once the water returns to that area. Often, they get stuck and have to be dragged out of the bed, she said. ...more

June 23, 2008

County commissioners have made it substantially easier for neighborhoods to get speed humps and other traffic control devices installed on residential streets. ...more

June 21, 2008