The city will hold a public meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Bruton Memorial Library, 302 McLendon St., on the Hillsborough County floodplain map that is being developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

August 21, 2008

Tampa and Hillsborough County public works crews are "pumping like crazy" to lower pond levels in north Tampa and avoid the kind of flooding that hit the area after Hurricane Frances in 2004. ...more

August 18, 2008

John McCain on Sunday was briefed on Tropical Storm Fay, which scuttled a political fundraiser and is threatening to reach Florida as soon as today. ...more

August 18, 2008

Hillsborough residents with homes built before June 18, 1980, can get reduced flood insurance rates if they hurry. ...more

August 15, 2008

If your home mortgage is federally insured - and most are - and you live in a flood-prone area, you may have to buy flood insurance. ...more

July 11, 2008

Plans are moving forward for a regional hurricane shelter and health care clinic in Hudson. ...more

June 25, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY Plans are moving forward for a regional hurricane shelter and health care clinic in Hudson. The county commission at a meeting today in New Port Richey awarded a $7.5 million contract to Spring Engineering and Bandes Construction to design and build the facility off Denton Avenue. The project is being funded with state and federal grants. According to the terms of the agreement, the shelter must comply with the latest federal standards, to withstand winds up to 200 miles per hour and the pressures of an F5 tornado. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has, however, exempted the facility from the more stringent rules, Assistant County Attorney Jane Fagan said, and the cost of construction may decrease in light of the exemption. ...more

June 24, 2008

Water from the swollen Mississippi River surged over more than 10 levees Thursday, flooding huge swaths of Missouri farmland as thousands of volunteers continued to pile up sandbags in a desperate bid to protect their communities. ...more

June 20, 2008

The state of Iowa has suffered Mother Nature's wrath in a way Floridians who suffered through the storms of 2004 and 2005 can relate. After one of the most brutal winters in memory, this spring brought a record number of tornadoes, torrential rain and now a 500-year flood that has left thousands of Iowans homeless. ...more

June 18, 2008

TAMPA - For animal control officers more accustomed to dogs or cats, a pony -- not even a full-grown horse -- is a bit larger than the critters they normally encounter. ...more

June 11, 2008