"It's just a little bit short of being in the absolute middle of nowhere," captain Artie Price says as he cranks the big Chevy engine on his airboat. ...more

February 8, 2008

Police divers used sonar to find a stolen silver Cadillac CTS that plunged into the Hillsborough River on Tuesday. ...more

February 6, 2008

TAMPA - Police divers have recovered a stolen silver Cadillac from the Hillsborough River at Bon Vivant Drive. ...more

February 5, 2008

The city council will seek grants to improve pedestrian and bicycle access to Picnic Island Park. ...more

January 30, 2008

A slack tide in the real estate market isn't slowing marine work at three waterfront developments along West Shore Boulevard. ...more

January 26, 2008

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

January 20, 2008

Robert Crews III has an interesting deal for Highlands County. The president and CEO of Crews Groves Inc. wants to trade an acre of beach frontage land on Lake Denton for the county-owned boat ramp on Lake Bonnett. Public access on the boat ramp for popular Lake Denton has been closed for months while a committee tries to figure out how best to use the lake. This land would give the county much more room for parking and public use. This all sounds intriguing, but one thing we cannot give up is public access to Lake Bonnett to achieve it on Lake Denton. We understand that this access is important to the Crews and their real estate investment on Lake Bonnett. ...more

January 11, 2008

SEBRING — Two Highlands County commissioners, Don Bates and Guy Maxcy, launched negotiations through a designated county spokesman to obtain one acre of prime, white-sand-beach lakefront on troubled Lake Denton. Maxcy and Bates asked Ken Melvin, one of the seven people on the commissioner-appointed Lake Denton Citizens Advisory Committee, to informally negotiate the county's obtaining that one-acre of Lake Denton lakefront with the president and CEO of a fifth-generation Highlands County citrus/ranch family. ...more

January 10, 2008