The pork industry is facing one of its worst struggles in memory and an unwanted link to the so-called swine flu is exacerbating problems, experts told Congress on Thursday. ...more

October 23, 2009

Efforts to get restaurants to conserve water have paid off with 200 restaurants joining a Southwest Florida Water Management District program during the past 12 months. ...more

May 26, 2009

How Do We Properly Educated Our Children? Mr. Gries' letter defending his wife and the teaching community was a perfect example of the meaning of my letter to the editor! Forget the kids, save my wife. ...more

December 7, 2008

Cold fronts have been frequent and fairly severe for this time of year, and that's scattered the sardines that were so plentiful a few short weeks ago. ...more

November 12, 2008

Wall Street, meet Sesame Street. Bulls, bears and Nobel laureates are talking a lot about letters as they try to predict the shape of the charts that will describe the economy's downturn and recovery. ...more

August 26, 2008

Ground operations began Monday at the Phoenix landing site at Mars' north pole, with the latest images from the robotic lander showing a bizarre, checkerboard-type landscape apparently carved by the movement of ice lying only inches beneath the surface. ...more

May 27, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mel Berman. ...more

February 2, 2008

OK, I'm new here, but as I understand it, we can go to the polls on Tuesday and vote to cut our exorbitant property taxes. ...more

January 28, 2008

OK, I'm new here, but as I understand it, we can go to the polls on Tuesday and vote to cut our exorbitant property taxes. ...more

January 27, 2008

GO FISHING is a daily look at the area fishing scene through the eyes of local charter boat captains and fishing guides. Today: Mike Anderson, right, with "Reel Animals" partner Billy Nobles. ...more

November 30, 2007