The bosses in Tallahassee dropped the interim label last week. Toby Brewer is now the official manager at Weeki Wachee Spring State Park, becoming the second person to hold that position since the roadside attraction was taken over by the state last November. ...more

October 21, 2009

The general manager of the Splash Island Water Park at Cypress Gardens said she was fired Friday for calling 911 about a spill of pool chemicals. ...more

September 11, 2009

Cypress Gardens, the state's first big theme park, reopens today with some big changes. ...more

March 29, 2009

Cypress Gardens, the state's first big theme park, reopens today. ...more

March 28, 2009

Former Busch Gardens Tampa Bay executive Rick Beddow has been named vice president of Aquatica, SeaWorld's water park in Orlando. ...more

March 23, 2009

The reopening of world-famous Cypress Gardens is set for March 28. ...more

March 22, 2009

It was 2004 and Florida's real estate market was sizzling. A 367-acre development in Ruskin promised a piece of paradise. ...more

March 14, 2009

Cypress Gardens will reopen March 28 with a new management team led by Bill Sims, who worked at the Winter Haven attraction with founder Dick Pope Sr. and also headed Silver Springs in Ocala and Weeki Wachee Springs in Spring Hill. ...more

February 25, 2009

Charity begins at home. ...more

November 28, 2008

It has an ice-skating rink, a rock-climbing wall, a nine-hole miniature golf course, three restaurants and a Ben & Jerry's ice-cream shop. ...more

November 21, 2008