Newlywed owners hope to revitalize downtown Brooksville; cozy café includes new menu and longer hours. ...more

May 11, 2008

When it comes to airline mergers, leisure and business travelers both have much at stake: the prospects of fewer flights, higher fares, even the loss of destinations. ...more

February 6, 2008

BRADENTON - For more than two weeks, Justin Matthews had been trying to capture a 13-foot-long python outside the Wal-Mart on State Road 64. ...more

February 6, 2008

For the third time this season and second in 11 days, the two most dominant girls soccer teams in Class 6A-District 7 will battle tonight. Not surprisingly, this final installment has the most at stake. ...more

January 29, 2008

They stake out their spots in front of the tax collector's office near Gulf Harbors, soliciting signatures from people entering and leaving the building. ...more

January 24, 2008

PROPERTY TAX PRIMER What's at stake - and who wins and who loses - in the property tax amendment voters will decide Jan. 29? We untangle it for you. ...more

January 12, 2008

Never look a gift horse in the mouth - especially when safe passage for pedestrians is at stake. ...more

January 12, 2008

It's election day again in Lakeland, with Justin Troller and Brian Dockery squaring off in a runoff election for the right to replace retiring commissioner Dean Boring. ...more

December 4, 2007

If we can skip past the melodrama surrounding the Bucs' quarterbacks for a moment, it's easier to see today's game against the Saints for what it really is. The Bucs have an extraordinary opportunity to put a boot on the neck of the NFC South. ...more

December 2, 2007

SEBRING — Highlands County commissioners need to find one more person, with the right credentials, to appoint a state-mandated citizens advisory committee on affordable workforce housing. At stake is the county's ability to keep receiving about $900,000 per year in state funding for housing assistance programs. Ten of the 11 seats on the committee have been tentatively filled, but commissioners are waiting to appoint the committee until the 11th position is filled. That person must be a county resident "who is actively engaged as a for-profit provider of affordable housing," according to state law. "Generally, that would be a contractor or a developer," said Jim Polatty, the county's development director. ...more

December 1, 2007