Right now, it's mostly scrub brush and pines. But sometime in 2008, bulldozers will clear away 53 acres on the southeast corner of the Suncoast Parkway and Spring Hill Drive to make way for a huge retail shopping complex. ...more

December 26, 2007

For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries. ...more

December 25, 2007

Floridians are feeling wealthier because incomes in the state are finally nearing the national average. But at the same time, Florida badly trails the nation in number of bachelor's degrees awarded and other educational achievements. ...more

December 5, 2007

SEBRING – New home construction may be stalled now. According to the state's leading planners, though, significant population growth in Highlands County over the next decade is about as sure as Florida sunshine. ...more

November 8, 2007

A more robust effort at involving the public has led to improvements in a proposed update of Hillsborough County's growth plan. ...more

November 8, 2007

Home construction in Florida is dropping off even further this fiscal year than state economists projected last summer, signaling that the market - and the state's economy - are going to take longer to bounce back than previously thought. ...more

November 3, 2007

An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. ...more

October 28, 2007

A long-range plan that projected a slew of new rural roads and two new Alafia River bridges for south Hillsborough County won't go before county commissioners early next year as announced after residents said they were shut out of the planning process. ...more

October 23, 2007

Hillsborough County planning commissioners resisted pleas from developers and voted Monday night against extending public water and sewer service outside the county's urban service area into rural areas. ...more

September 25, 2007

Forty acres adjacent to Hillsborough Community College's Plant City campus have been used for recreational fields for 26 years, and commissioners said Sept. 10 they would like the land to retain that usage for several more. ...more

September 19, 2007