A powerful typhoon toppled houses, flooded villages and forced nearly 1 million people to flee to safety on China's eastern coast before weakening into a tropical storm today. ...more

August 10, 2009

BUDGET BY THE NUMBERS $754 million proposed fiscal year 2010 budget $5.73 property tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value ...more

August 7, 2009

A new fire station won't hinder recreation at a popular park in rural Hillsborough, an official said. Some residents were alarmed when a surveyor's map appeared to show that the station would be located in the center of Bealsville Park, 5009 Nesmith Road. But county fire rescue Chief Kim Olsen said that's not the county's intentions. ...more

August 4, 2009

A proposed air-conditioning system has come under fire from residents and a contractor for being too expensive and too large for the Seminole Heights Garden Center. ...more

July 22, 2009

Four Port of Tampa businesses will get $10 million in federal stimulus money for infrastructure improvements, said U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa. ...more

July 18, 2009

Four Port of Tampa businesses will get $10 million in federal stimulus funds for infrastructure improvements, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., said. ...more

July 17, 2009

Roughly 1 million customers of the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will see a 10 percent increase on their premiums Jan. 1. ...more

July 8, 2009

It's a happy July 4 for two winners of a Florida Lottery drawing who bought tickets in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

July 4, 2009

Federal banking regulators have hit the small First Commercial Bank of Tampa Bay, 4600 W. Kennedy Blvd., with a cease-and-desist order demanding, among other things, the bank improve its finances. ...more

June 28, 2009

On Monday, the governing board of Tampa Bay used one hand to hold its collective nose and plunged the other into the pockets of the people in Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties who consume the water the regional wholesale utility produces. Then the board voted to spend an estimated $125 million over the next five years to repair the many cracks that have developed in the utility's 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Reservoir. ...more

June 23, 2009