When the board met to reflect on 2007, we decided to create awards that celebrate the year's newsmakers and events, the highlights and the lowlights, the champs and the chumps. ...more

December 30, 2007

The Big Apple has its ball, and Brooksville has its big tangerine. ...more

December 30, 2007

The Big Apple has its ball, and Brooksville has its big tangerine. ...more

December 27, 2007

An emergency rule designed to guard Florida's citrus crop against a fungus that might be on California fruit shipped into the state withstood an initial court challenge Wednesday. ...more

December 20, 2007

Drew Burchenal and his dad, Bill, have been hunched over a conveyor for days, inspecting the fresh, hand-picked citrus from their 220-acre citrus farm in Odessa. ...more

December 19, 2007

MELBOURNE (AP) – Just as Florida's fruit shippers are entering their busy period, they've been saddled with some additional scrutiny — full-time government inspectors in the packinghouses, checking citrus for signs of canker blemishes. It's not that the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors are unwanted, but ... "I know they're just doing their job," said Jim Harvey, an owner of Harvey's Groves in Rockledge — one of Brevard County's major fruit shippers. "But it certainly is inconvenient." ...more

December 2, 2007

You don't have to be a Boy Scout to live by the motto "Be prepared." Many American workers learn that lesson each year, as foreign competition, technology and other factors force their companies to shut down or move overseas. People ask, "How am I going to make it?" ...more

November 11, 2007

Florida's citrus industry was just about given up for dead in recent years. Sure, the annual crop brought in $1.4 billion to growers last year. But plagued by hurricanes, freezes, labor shortages, imports, deadly diseases and sky-high land prices that caused landowners to turn groves into subdivisions, the long-term outlook for Florida's most identifiable crop appeared bleak. ...more

November 3, 2007

The state owes nearly 41,000 Palm Beach County residents fair compensation after removing citrus trees from their yards in a failed decadelong effort to eradicate a harmful bacteria, an attorney said Monday during opening statements in a class-action lawsuit. ...more

October 16, 2007

SARASOTA - Two or three times a day, laboratory technicians load chilled metal boxes onto small planes at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. ...more

October 7, 2007