Manatee County is hardly the leading edge of liberalism. Yet it says something about Florida’s tortured approach to growth ...

On Oct. 9, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Sarasota County, roaring off the gulf coast at maximum wind speeds of 120 mph. It was still moving at 102 mph when it rolled through St. Petersburg, ...

Republican Sen. Jay Collins of Hillsborough County has filed a bill allowing employers to schedule minors to work at any time ...

A Florida state senator is pushing a bill that would require all local governments to perform annual inspections of the water ...

A Florida Senate Republican filed a wide-ranging "Florida Farm Bill" that, among other things, would ban local governments ...

In an effort to avoid the devastating flooding that hit the Tampa Bay region last year, a Florida senator representing parts of Pasco and Hillsborough counties wants to require local governments to ...

Community members and coalition leaders urge county commission to pass the ordinance in the face of skyrocketing energy bills ...

Since 2022, Hillsborough has been sitting on a nearly $5 million federal grant to buy a new boat. The Hillsborough Area ...

Republican lawmakers, in their zeal to create more term limits, now have taken aim at county commissioners and district ...

The city of Miami Beach is to provide appropriate accommodations to city employees who are prescribed medical marijuana, city ...

Commissioner John King, a citizen appointee to Hillsborough’s transit authority board, said he thought Pinellas was trying to ...

New appointments to the commission include Barbara Haselden, a graduate of Ball State University and owner and president of ...