Hurricane Hanna, with winds packing 150 mph, was veering straight toward the Tampa Bay area. ...more

July 23, 2008

Officers Live Nearby Regarding "City Should Require Police Officers To Buy Gas For Long Commutes" (Our Opinion, July 17): ...more

July 22, 2008

PORT TAMPA - Wanda Howard is trying her hardest to make sure students in Tampa start school on the right foot. From back packs to pencils and calculators and pens, Howard is helping coordinate the second annual Back to School Supplies Give-Away sponsored by Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church, 7401 Kissimmee St., in Port Tampa. ...more

July 18, 2008

City residents don't have to throw their junk mail in the trash anymore. Now they can chuck it into their recycling bins. ...more

June 19, 2008

Is Hillsborough County ready for another political campaign featuring Tampa strip-club king Joe Redner? ...more

June 19, 2008

The more than three-year wait is over. With a tweet of a whistle from Mayor Pam Iorio, the remodeled pool at Cyrus Greene Park reopened this week at 2101 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. ...more

June 14, 2008

Representatives from churches stand in medians collecting money for their ministries. Firefighters gather to raise money for children suffering from muscular dystrophy. Political candidates eagerly wave signs, beckoning for votes. ...more

June 14, 2008

Mosaic Fertilizer has withdrawn from a nonprofit company that wants to pipe millions of gallons of wastewater daily from Tampa and Hillsborough County to customers in eastern Hillsborough and Polk County. ...more

June 7, 2008

Single sculler Shannon Hoffman of the Academy of the Holy Names won a bronze medal, while the Plant women's varsity 8 reached a nationals final for the first time at the Scholastic Rowing Association of America's National Championships in Oak Ridge, Tenn., last Saturday. ...more

May 31, 2008

Before the 1940s, Republicans in Florida were as rare as cold fronts in August. ...more

May 25, 2008