The underwater bomb seekers that Coast Guard and Navy officials say will keep Tampa Bay safe from explosives were on display today at the Port of St. Petersburg. ...more

August 28, 2008

Last weekend, a team of researchers drove a small boat into Tampa Bay and dropped two massive decoy bombs near bridge pilings and port docks. The U.S. Navy, working with the experiment, then sent out two underwater robots to scour the watery floor looking for the bombs. ...more

August 28, 2008

The Fishin' Report by Nick Stubbs of Media General News Service. ...more

August 25, 2008

A road that travels over the Little Manatee River will once again be out of commission for a few days. The County Road 579 bridge will be closed from 9 a.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Monday to repair the remaining damaged wooden supports. Concrete will be poured around those columns and allowed to cure. ...more

July 21, 2008

The County Road 579 bridge over the Little Manatee River opened to traffic Wednesday night. But the bridge, which is just north of the Hillsborough-Manatee county line, will need to be closed for short periods over the next few weeks to finish the repair work. ...more

July 17, 2008

County officials say a routine check of the County Road 579 bridge turned up some rotting supports, and the bridge will be closed to traffic for at least two months for further inspection and repairs. ...more

July 5, 2008

SEBRING —Whether you're having a barbecue overlooking your back yard or lounging in a lawn chair near your beached boat to read this paper, many of you are probably putting your dock or deck to use now. If you have a wooden deck or are thinking of having one built, you might want to make sure it's in good shape so that you can enjoy it over the summer. Local contractors have come across decks and docks with loose nails and deteriorating planks, and in some cases it's because they were not built properly or because they weren't well maintained. ...more

June 30, 2008

WIMAUMA - Hillsborough officials have closed the County Road 579 bridge over the Little Manatee River because a routine inspection turned up two rotting supports. The other 22 wooden pilings must be inspected and repairs completed before the bridge can reopen, county spokesman Patrick Murray said Monday. That's expected to take at least two months. ...more

June 27, 2008

They couldn't make it any more obvious. While channel markers, buoys and range markers are not intended to guide anglers to their quarry, the huge, brightly colored navigation aids are always a good place to start looking for kingfish, Spanish mackerel, blues, bonito, cobia or tripletail, to say nothing of virtually every type of offshore baitfish that swims in the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

June 27, 2008

The Fishin' Report, by Nick Stubbs of the Media General News Service ...more

June 17, 2008