With the flu season 10 days away and swine flu casualties continuing to mount, health officials are trying to make prevention as easy as possible. ...more

September 22, 2009

Tampa International Airport ranked 17th in on-time arrivals performance and 12th in departure performance in July, a report by the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics showed. ...more

September 15, 2009

Passenger traffic at Tampa International Airport declined 1.7 percent in August compared with a year ago, the best showing in the past 17 months as the recession's toll on business and leisure travel appears to be receding. ...more

September 15, 2009

Tampa International Airport will launch construction later this year on a $10.1 million project to expand the rental car facility at the main terminal by 15 percent to 20 percent and allow off-airport agencies Alamo and National to provide service from the terminal if they desire. ...more

September 4, 2009

Beginning today, several thousand more drivers each day will be impacted by a new traffic pattern on Memorial Highway (State Road 60) southwest of Tampa International Airport. On Aug. 19, a switch affected traffic coming in either direction from Interstate 275 and Kennedy Boulevard. Now, that switch also will affect drivers coming from the airport's George Bean Parkway or westbound Spruce Street. ...more

August 31, 2009

A four-lane divided highway opened to the public Tuesday morning along the eastern boundary of Tampa International Airport. ...more

August 26, 2009

Passenger traffic at Tampa International Airport declined 4.9 percent in July to 751,586 departing passengers, the lowest monthly percentage drop in a year, airport officials reported. The airport generally gets the same number of arriving as departing passengers, so about 1.5 million passengers used the airport last month. ...more

August 19, 2009

On-time performance improved for flights at Tampa International Airport in June compared with a year ago, despite one arrival that spent four hours, 35 minutes on the tarmac at Washington Dulles International Airport during stormy weather. ...more

August 6, 2009

A JetBlue Airways flight carrying 140 passengers and crew members from Fort Lauderdale to New York landed safely about 8:20 p.m. today at Tampa International Airport after the pilot reported "an instrumentation problem." ...more

July 28, 2009

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is scheduled to unveil a new radio system this morning that allows first responders across the county to communicate with each other. The system includes the sheriff's office, the Tampa Police Department, the University of South Florida Police Department and the school district's security force. The sheriff's office and Tampa police began using the system Monday. ...more

July 23, 2009