A delegation of Pasco County legislators and officials made a pitch to Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday morning to keep the Cross Bar Ranch on Florida Forever's "A" list for acquisition. ...more

January 24, 2008

Paul Smokov doesn't need radar or other high-tech equipment to forecast a major snowstorm on the prairie. He consults pig spleens. ...more

December 28, 2007

Pasco County officials made a final pitch to a state committee Thursday in Tallahassee in their bid to buy the Cross Bar Ranch from Pinellas County and dedicate the property to conservation. ...more

December 14, 2007

It just made horse sense for this couple to give up the rat race for ranch life. Now their Inverness farm entices others with an innate need to saddle up. ...more

December 13, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - A doe and fawn pause in a meadow, posing for visitors on a tour of the Cross Bar Ranch in central Pasco County. ...more

December 12, 2007

Surveyors' stakes recently appeared along the edges of County Line Road on either side of its junction with Cypress Creek Road - the first sign that work could soon begin on improvements planned for the intersection. ...more

November 19, 2007

The owners of Wiregrass Ranch have donated 24 acres next to Saddlebrook Resort to Pasco County, clearing the way for design and construction of the planned $7.9 million Pasco National Tennis Center. ...more

October 19, 2007