The Florida Department of Transportation will host a public meeting March 30 to discuss a proposed conceptual design to widen U.S. 41 North from 12th Street to Kracker Avenue in Gibsonton. The meeting will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Resort & Club at Little Harbor, 611 Destiny Drive, Ruskin. ...more

March 30, 2009

Re: "Hernando Issues - From The Sky" in the March 26 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

March 27, 2009

According to Gary Ritter, director of South Florida Water Management District, SLID is responsible for the water management system for Spring Lake, including the golf course. So if that is the case, there is no reason for SLID to buy the golf course. The current owner has stated SLID has every legal right to clear the water ways. They have an easement, he stated, at the meeting last Wednesday. If SLID buys the golf course for $3.4 million, how much more is it going to cost to clean out the ponds, canals and lakes? All the SLID board members have talked about is buying the golf course. How is this going to fix the problem without dredging the water ways? ...more

March 24, 2009

Until we manage our water more effectively we'll never have enough. Ending development today isn't the answer. ...more

March 8, 2009

Let's call it fishing in a huge, expensive and slightly flawed barrel. Wholesale utility Tampa Bay Water has paid a contractor $88,000 to relocate fish from its C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir to ponds in the area. ...more

March 7, 2009

MANATEE COUNTY – Authorities say a 78-year-old man charged at a contractor with a machete, threatening to chop him up and throw him in a pond because the man did not want fish removed from the neighborhood lakes. ...more

February 25, 2009

For the first time in Tampa Bay Golf & Country Club history, a resident will have a vote Monday on the homeowners association budget. ...more

December 6, 2008

The Florida Department of Transportation is reviving a 7-year-old plan to convert Gall Boulevard into a one-way street through town. ...more

November 8, 2008

Two Tampa men attacked a former roommate and forced their way into another former roommate's apartment and struck him with beer bottles Sunday night, Tampa police say. ...more

September 30, 2008

Two Tampa men attacked one former roommate and forced their way into another former roommate's apartment and struck him with beer bottles Sunday night, Tampa police say. ...more

September 29, 2008