Drivers on a 47-mile stretch of Florida's Turnpike won't have to stop or slow down to pay tolls starting in 2011. ...more

November 21, 2009

Council unanimously approved the lowest bidder, Excavation Point, to construct water lines looping its Sparta Road and Lakewood Road water lines, as a first phase of the city's plans for that general area. ...more

November 21, 2009

MIAMI (AP) — Florida's Turnpike officials want your thoughts on proposed toll rates that will be introduced in early 2011 when the turnpike eliminates cash collection between Florida City and Miramar. ...more

November 17, 2009

Motorists along one of Lakeland's major thoroughfares are being greeted with a billboard asking a provocative question: "Don't believe in God?" ...more

November 3, 2009

Bay area home prices continued to fall in January, posting a 23.3 percent yearly decline, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009

All 20 areas tracked across the country showed a decline. Miami, the only other Florida city tracked, dropped 29 percent. ...more

March 31, 2009

Home prices in the Tampa Bay area continued to fall in November, posting a 20.9 percent decline, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released Tuesday. ...more

January 28, 2009

Home prices in the Tampa Bay area continued to fall in November, posting a 20.9 percent decline, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released this morning. ...more

January 27, 2009

Tampa Bay area home prices continued to fall in October, posting a 19.8 percent decline from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released Tuesday. ...more

December 31, 2008

TAMPA -- Bay area home prices continued to fall in October, posting a 19.8 percent decline from a year ago, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index, released this morning. The index, a closely watched indicator of the health of the nation's housing market, tracks 20 metro cities and showed prices dropped 18 percent from last year -- a record decline. ...more

December 30, 2008