An overturned boat on Interstate 75 has backed up northbound traffic in Pasco County this morning, according to Pasco Fire Rescue. Around 6 a.m., a boat on a trailer traveling north flipped into the median south of St. Joe Road and north of State Road 52, a dispatcher said. ...more

November 20, 2009

After years of letting suburbia sprawl hither and yon across Pasco County, commissioners have begun charting a new course for growth. ...more

November 20, 2009

A man on Pasco County's most-wanted list has been captured in Las Vegas and brought to Tampa to face federal charges that he tried to hire a hit man to kill a witness against him, a federal official said. ...more

November 19, 2009

Sheriff Bob White is asking the community to help him help the needy in Pasco County this holiday season. ...more

November 19, 2009

Zephyrhills is no longer a sleepy little town predominantly known as an escape from the brutal winters of the North and Midwest. ...more

November 19, 2009

Pasco County officials are talking about a plan to allow developers to buy development rights from rural landowners, where the county wants to preserve open space, and increase development in Pasco's urban core. ...more

November 17, 2009

Hannelore Hoffmen could see the chaos and hear it outside of her neighbor's home Sunday night: the smoke, the crackling of the fire, the confusion from those who had been inside and the screams. ...more

November 17, 2009

When the sprawling residential-commercial development project that was to be known as Serenova was still on the drawing board, one of the people involved in the project suggested that the center of economic activity in the county was even then shifting from West Pasco to Central and East Pasco. The U.S. 19 corridor would become economically "blighted" and have to be redeveloped, this person suggested. Serenova never got built and the 6,500 acres it would have occupied ended up in the hands of the Southwest Florida Water Management District. The U.S. 19 prediction, alas, is still looking viable. ...more

November 14, 2009

Centennial Elementary School's Relay for Life team aims to "close the book" on cancer with the help of a fundraising yard sale this weekend. ...more

November 14, 2009

A real estate firm will return to its roots when it relocates its offices to U.S. 19 near Main Street. Broker Greg Armstrong hopes to complete the move of Coldwell Banker F.I. Grey & Son Residential Inc. back to 6320 U.S. 19 by the end of the month. ...more

November 14, 2009