The shipping company that provides weekly container cargo service between Tampa and China, Korea and Japan is phasing in 10 new and larger vessels that can carry up to 4,250 20-foot-equivalent containers, each of which can be hauled to and from local destinations much like a tractor-trailer. ...more

October 7, 2008

A hospital wing that will serve as home to 30 military veterans living with spinal cord injuries was dedicated today at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center. ...more

August 22, 2008

Dramatic fare increases and flagging demand for travel may test Tampa International Airport in the year ahead, its director says, but the groundwork will continue for its largest expansion project in 40 years. ...more

August 8, 2008

The Florida Gas Transmission Co. is expanding its underground natural gas pipeline network and is holidng an open house in Land O' Lakes tonight to discuss its plans. About 22 miles of the proposed natural gas pipeline expansion could someday stretch through Pasco County. A representative from the Florida Gas Transmission on June 10 briefed Pasco County commissioners on the company's plans. The 36-inch pipeline would stretch from Tallahassee to South Florida, cutting through 25 counties. Pasco County residents are invited to the open house 6-7:30 p.m. tnoight at the Land O' Lakes Community Center, 5401 Land O' Lakes Blvd. The Pasco portion primarily would run adjacent to an existing corridor along State Road 52, south through Land O' Lakes to the Hillsborough County line, said Stephen Veatch, the company's senior director for certificates and tariffs. The $2 billion expansion project would serve utility providers such as Florida Power & Light, Seminole Electric Cooperative, the city of Tallahassee and possibly Progress Energy in the future. The expansion is needed to serve growing energy needs and higher demands for natural gas, an environmentally preferable alternative to coal, Veatch said in June. For information about the project, call 1-877-663-9161 or go to www.panhandleenergy .com/fgt/phaseviii ...more

July 8, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY - A $49 million expansion project will nearly double the size of the Morton Plant North Bay Hospital campus, with construction starting in earnest by the end of June. The 122-bed hospital at 6600 Madison St. has gone through several transformations since it opened in 1965, as the county-owned West Pasco Hospital. Nothing as extensive as the latest metamorphosis, however, has ever taken place at the hospital, administrators indicate. ...more

June 21, 2008

Florida Gas Transmission Company wants to run about 10 miles of new natural gas pipeline through Hernando County as part of a massive expansion project to meet burgeoning demand for the resource throughout the state. ...more

June 18, 2008

Plans are to follow existing lines. ...more

June 17, 2008

About 22 miles of a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion could someday stretch through Pasco County. ...more

June 11, 2008

TAMPA - Three humongous inflatable rats wave in the breeze to people passing by St. Joseph's Hospital on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the manifestation of a labor dispute between contractors the hospital has hired and a local union. ...more

May 23, 2008

When city officials broke ground on the municipal airport expansion project at a ceremony in January, they had big dollar signs in their eyes. ...more

May 21, 2008