For decades, people who couldn't be identified or who died with no money for their funerals were left for the county to bury. ...more

September 17, 2009

A zoning hearing master is recommending approval of a rezoning request that would allow eight more houses in an environmentally sensitive area along the Little Manatee River. ...more

March 25, 2009

Throughout east Pasco County, residents have sent state environmental regulators an unequivocal message: Don't ruin our pristine countryside with a garbage dump. ...more

September 26, 2008

The Tarpon Springs Planning and Zoning Board will hear Wal-Mart's request to amend the site plan for the retailer's proposed 203,077-square-foot Supercenter on U.S. 19 near Beckett Way. ...more

September 22, 2008

The trouble caused by the patas monkeys that escaped Lex Salisbury's rural Polk County exotic animal park in April has extended beyond the mostly unsuccessful effort to recapture the wily primates. ...more

May 31, 2008

AVON PARK — The gates to the Carter Creek fence have not been installed yet, but Riverdale Road has been a lot more quieter with the fence nearly completed, according to a Highlands County Sheriff's Office official. Sheriff's Capt. Paul Blackman said fewer area residents have complained about all-terrain vehicles, or ATVs, criss-crossing the environmentally sensitive area. Authorities also have not had any complaints about ATVs running up and down Riverdale Road, he added. "That issue kind of went away as well since the state started erecting the fence," Blackman added. ...more

February 9, 2008

City officials here have no say in whether a controversial landfill can be built in northeast Pasco County. ...more

September 22, 2007