Waterfront homeowners eager to unclog the hemmed-in canals that block their path to Tampa Bay will have to wait a bit longer. The public hearing on an ordinance that would help property owners set up and finance a coastal canal dredging program won't go before the Hillsborough County Commission until at least mid-January. The public hearing had originally been scheduled for Dec. 17. ...more

December 4, 2008

Robert Hunter, who helped guide growth planning in Hillsborough County for 21 years, will resign at the end of this year as executive director of the planning commission. ...more

November 28, 2008

Robert Hunter, who helped guide growth planning in Hillsborough County for 21 years, will resign at the end of this year as executive director of the Planning Commission. ...more

November 27, 2008

Bob Bondi, who served on the Hillsborough County Commission and school board for a dozen years in the 1960s and '70s, died today of a heart attack. ...more

November 26, 2008

Every level of local government finally is planning seriously for better transit because, after many years of uncertainty, most elected officials now sense it's what taxpayers want. ...more

November 23, 2008

It's a piece of property Dick Stowers knows well. In the 1940s and '50s, Stowers and his friends used to race around Lake Hutto in Lithia, just south of the Alafia River, in their Buick Roadmasters and Chrysler Windsors. ...more

November 19, 2008

A community effort to add civic activist Carol Poland's name to the New Tampa Regional Library grows louder. ...more

November 19, 2008

Brian Blair said he wanted his goodbye news conference to be an "upbeat" affair, but the former professional wrestler couldn't leave the ring without taking a few shots at the opponent who took his Hillsborough County Commission seat in last week's election. ...more

November 14, 2008

Like the Tampa Bay Rays, the Lutz Little League wants its players to have solid fundamental skills and to work together. ...more

November 12, 2008

The Keystone Civic Association has lost its fight against a roof on the Anytime Fitness building, 17765 Gunn Highway. ...more

November 12, 2008