A donation saved the Fourth of July fireworks display for Tarpon Springs that a tight budget forced the city to cancel. ...more

June 3, 2008

The city's cemetery expansion plans have been put on hold. Tuesday night, the city commission decided to table consideration of a proposal to trade a surplus street paver, backhoe and land to expand the 130-year-old burial ground. The trade would have covered only $38,645 of the $247,800 purchase price for the 7-acre parcel that Dade City wants to buy from contractor and property owner Bob Larkin. ...more

May 29, 2008

Pinellas County gives just nine employees a county car to drive. In Pasco County, just 10 supervisors drive county cars home, a number that will be cut later this year. ...more

May 12, 2008

Only one piece of the state's multimillion-dollar deal with CSX Transportation remains to be settled, but obstacles to the plan are mounting, because of questions from state lawmakers and moves by federal officials. ...more

February 23, 2008

After nearly a decade in development, the new Carrollwood Cultural Center opens its doors to the arts. ...more

February 20, 2008

After nearly a decade in development, the new Carrollwood Cultural Center opens its doors to the arts. ...more

February 20, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board, which usually waits until summer before delving into number crunching, is already starting to talk about its 2008-09 budget and pondering plans to buy new buses and land for a high school as well as move ahead on construction projects. ...more

February 14, 2008

A few questions hold the key to whether USF builds the state's first public polytechnic campus in north Lakeland: Does Florida's higher education bureaucracy support it? Will the Legislature pay for it? Can it survive Gov. Charlie Crist's veto pen? ...more

January 29, 2008

The city's popular toilet rebate program is circling the drain, another casualty of budget cuts at City Hall. ...more

January 12, 2008

Pasco County's code enforcement division long has relied on residents to police their neighborhoods and call attention to abandoned cars, errant signs and other unauthorized activity. ...more

January 11, 2008