Dramatic fare increases and flagging demand for travel may test Tampa International Airport in the year ahead, its director says, but the groundwork will continue for its largest expansion project in 40 years. ...more

August 8, 2008

Cito Gaston will return as manager of the Toronto Blue Jays next year. ...more

August 8, 2008

Starting in the Kids Club at Auburndale Speedway in 1996, 10-year-old Aaron Williamson drove the first race of his young racing career. A dozen years later, at 22, he is a crafty veteran with a Mini-Stock championship, two Southern Sportsman championships and a shot at the local Late Model classes. ...more

July 17, 2008

The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not only to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors' ability to communicate. ...more

July 11, 2008

South Hillsborough residents of all ages recently came together for a new project that honors the past while literally laying the groundwork for generations to come. ...more

July 5, 2008

Even as they fretted over billions of dollars in budget cuts, state lawmakers voted this spring to spend $27 million to help more poor children attend private schools. ...more

May 28, 2008

The Southwest Florida Water Management District sets the groundwork for its biggest environmental rehab ever: transforming an old rock mine and farm fields that had been tagged for a power plant into a coastal environmental paradise. ...more

May 26, 2008

For all that the NHL fails to get right, you have to credit the league for a sense of timing. ...more

February 18, 2008

Is There Life In Spring Hill? Several times I've started to write this, then decided against it. Mainly because I think it will offend a large segment of my fellow Spring Hill and Hernando County neighbors. But it needs to be said, regardless of who it may rub the wrong way. ...more

February 1, 2008

SEBRING — County and state officials have no control over when Highlands County's home building industry will recover. That depends on whether the economy keeps slumping or starts jumping. But government officials will control where the the new development occurs, and that's at the heart of the county commissioners' pending adoption of what the state calls "urban services boundaries." Commissioners laid the groundwork this week to do just that before the end of this month, with a few twists. ...more

December 13, 2007