The Environmental Protection Commission has cited former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Vinny Testaverde for ripping out mature cypress trees from the shoreline of his Lake Keystone home. ...more

June 7, 2008

KEYSTONE The Environmental Protection Commission has cited former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Vinny Testaverde for ripping out mature cypress trees from the shoreline of his Lake Keystone home. ...more

June 6, 2008

Residents need more notification before workers at the Babe Zaharias Golf Course spray a pesticide to kill worms, city council members said Thursday. ...more

June 6, 2008

Care for children, the aged and the environment will get less money next year under a budget proposed Wednesday by Hillsborough County Administrator Pat Bean. ...more

June 5, 2008

An air pollution advisory is in effect for Hillsborough County until Wednesday. ...more

May 6, 2008

Environmental officials from Hillsborough County say they haven't seen any downstream impacts from the plume of muddy water that polluted Cypress Creek last month. ...more

February 19, 2008

Regarding "2 Commissioners Urge Parks Merger" (Feb. 4): Mayor Iorio is correct to be concerned at merging parks with the county. This is the same county commission that excluded city residents from the transit committee that almost shifted the transit tax only to city residents, wants to reduce the city's voice on the Tampa Sports Authority while keeping us off the Environmental Protection Commission, withheld funds to fix the Tampa Convention Center roof and often ridicules our city government. ...more

February 7, 2008

The Barrio Latino Commission, the citizens' panel charged with protecting the architectural integrity of Ybor City, is mistaken to oppose a proposal by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to close a street adjacent to the sheriff's headquarters. ...more

February 6, 2008

If you're a government apparatchik, seeing Hillsborough County commissioner and resident board parson Brian Blair barging through the door has to be the paper-pusher equivalent of the pol who came to dinner meets Mongo from "Blazing Saddles." ...more

February 5, 2008

Regulators characterized it as the potential loss of a "nominal amount" of wetlands, but environmental advocates said allowing farmers to dredge or fill small ponds or marshes without replacing them whittles away at Hillsborough County's long-standing wetlands protections. ...more

January 21, 2008