Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, is introducing a new environmental program into the high schools of Hillsborough County called the Keep Our School Beautiful Chapter Program. ...more

November 4, 2009

A head-on crash early Friday left a 24-year-old man dead, sent another man to the hospital and closed a portion of U.S. 19, authorities said. ...more

October 17, 2009

Roads were closed for five hours Thursday in Hendry County as hazmat crews cleaned up manganese nitrate and iron nitrate that fell from a Lake Placid truck driver's rig. ...more

August 28, 2009

Fort De Soto Park is about to become cleaner. The nonprofit group Tampa Bay Watch is hosting a midsummer cleanup at Fort De Soto Park from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in partnership with WTSP, Channel 10, and Keep Pinellas Beautiful. ...more

July 9, 2009

A fertilizer spill has closed the southbound lanes of 21st Street near Interstate 4, Tampa Fire Rescue reports. ...more

April 11, 2009

The Coast Guard is monitoring the cleanup of a 1,000-gallon oil spill in the Port of Tampa. ...more

April 1, 2009

PLANT CITY Commissioners recently adopted a nuisance abatement ordinance tightening regulations regarding swimming pools. ...more

March 16, 2009

A bill requiring broader public notice about pollution, sparked by contamination of neighborhoods near the St. Petersburg Raytheon plant, passed a key state Senate committee Tuesday. ...more

March 11, 2009

A bill requiring broader public notice about pollution, sparked by contamination of neighborhoods near the St. Petersburg Raytheon plant, passed a key state Senate committee this morning. ...more

March 10, 2009

The driver of a tractor-trailer that flipped on Interstate 75 this morning has been extricated from the cab and airlifted to Tampa General Hospital, officials said. ...more

February 24, 2009