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

Rays Show Off New Alternate Uniforms ...more

January 14, 2009

Just before Christmas, charitable organizations in the Tampa Bay area found themselves struggling to help the struggling. ...more

January 9, 2009

Both the "Landfill A Good Deal for Pasco" (Dec. 26) and the Tom Jackson "Really Green" (Dec. 28) opinions really miss the mark on the dump that is proposed to be built near the Green Swamp, source of the Floridan Aquifer. ...more

January 3, 2009

America's Second Harvest Purpose: Serves as a distribution point for food banks in 10-county area. A typical November brings in 650,000 pounds of food. This November there were 600,000 pounds of food. ...more

December 19, 2008

Everyone is aware of the Salvation Army's "Toys for Tots" campaign, which supplies toys to younger children each year, but what about teenagers? ...more

December 13, 2008

The Tampa Bay Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is very concerned about an unspoken public health issue affecting the citizens of the Tampa Bay region, including the city of Tampa: the pollution from TECO's coal-powered plants. ...more

December 3, 2008

By all the commentaries I have seen, Black Friday two days ago is about to be followed by a darker, tougher and meaner year for millions of Americans, including a lot of us in the Tampa Bay region. ...more

November 30, 2008

There's never a good time to raise ticket prices, especially now, with the economy spiraling south. But you have to give a hand to the Tampa Bay Rays for maintaining their ultra-fan friendly approach even when increasing ticket prices for 2009. ...more

November 21, 2008

the epicenter of Pasco County's housing boom in 2005 and 2006 - led the county in declining housing prices. An analysis by Zillow.com, a Seattle-based housing research Web site, shows dramatic declines in home prices throughout Pasco County and the Tampa Bay region in general, compared with the same period last year. ...more

November 16, 2008