The Highlands County commissioners agreed Tuesday with the goal of keeping companies that do business with the county from using illegal workers. ...more

February 11, 2009

Zane Thomas, running as an independent, has 25 years as a Navy officer, traveling around the world and serving in both diplomatic and combat roles. ...more

October 12, 2008

A job seeker with experience in both construction and health care is better served looking for work at a hospital as opposed to a housing developer's office. ...more

September 13, 2008

The two candidates for the District 5 seat on the Highlands County Board of Commissioners spoke at this week's meeting of the Highlands County Homeowners Association. ...more

September 11, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- The big response to a recent telephone directory recycling drive should send a clear signal to county officials, RESORCE Recycling Club leaders hope. The club set a goal of collecting five tons of old phone books that otherwise might have ended up in a landfill. Instead, Pasco residents turned in 17 tons worth of old phone books. ...more

August 2, 2008

The health care industry is not noticing the slumping market. It seems to be happening without the participation of local hospitals, assisted-living homes and medical offices. They, in turn, are expanding their work forces. ...more

August 1, 2008

Hernando Today is seeking vendors for its upcoming Opportunity 2008 Hernando County Job Fair to be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, in Heffernan Hall of St. Anthony Catholic Church located at 20428 Cortez Blvd. ...more

July 17, 2008

SEBRING — The formal legal process for the appeals of two county employees for exchanging inappropriate and often sexually explicit instant-messages will begin in six days, on Monday. Jim McCollum, the attorney for ex-county employees Jared Lee and Treasa Handley, will take sworn statements, recorded verbatim by a legal stenographer, from four people, starting at 9 a.m. in a conference room at the Highlands County Government Center. Handley and Lee were dismissed more than five months ago for sending thousands of personal instant messages to each other, and others, on their county computers during working hours. Many of the messages were sexually explicit, and all of them are public record, accessible to anyone, with a request to either the county's public information officer or the Highlands County Clerk of Courts office. ...more

June 16, 2008

Sarasota County announced today a new tobacco-free hiring policy. ...more

May 19, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A project the Save Our Canals group thought would expand throughout Hillsborough County may be in danger of disappearing. ...more

February 23, 2008