The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has announced plans to spend more than $2.3 million from a 2002 phosphate spill penalty on a wetland restoration project at Balm-Boyette Scrub. ...more

February 6, 2008

More than a dozen construction projects are under way or on the drawing board at this 67-year-old military installation. ...more

February 4, 2008

Admitting they underestimated what it would take to transform millions of gallons of estuary water into something people can drink, Tampa Bay Water officials last week cut the ribbon for a second time on North America's largest desalination plant. ...more

January 31, 2008

The northwest end of the main runway at Peter O. Knight Airport is too close to the shipping channel. Federal rules encourage the Aviation Authority to add a 175-foot buffer, and the only way to do that is to shift the usable portion of the runway 175 feet to the southeast, which puts the end of the runway closer to waterfront homes. ...more

January 25, 2008

She passed away in her wheelchair Sunday night watching fireworks explode above Bayshore Boulevard, a few blocks from where she was born 92 years ago. ...more

January 25, 2008

Lolling. Unadulterated lolling. Scores of manatees spent hours doing just that, along with an occasional roll, splash or flip of the tail, in the 30-acre outdoor sauna that Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station provided during last week's winter chill. ...more

January 9, 2008

Lolling. Unadulterated lolling. Scores of manatees spent hours doing just that, along with an occasional roll, splash or flip of the tail, in the 30-acre outdoor sauna that Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station provided during last week's winter chill. ...more

January 9, 2008

The critters can come and go as they like, but Old Man Winter drove them in Thursday with tail-biting temperatures, transforming the warm-water canal at Big Bend Station into a kind of sea cow corral. ...more

January 4, 2008

For more than a century Bayshore Boulevard has been Tampa's showcase, its jewel, touted as having one of the world's longest uninterrupted sidewalks. ...more

December 17, 2007

As if they had marked it on their calendar, a flock of white pelicans soared over Mount Cockroach as a crowd of people gathered to celebrate 20 years of making Tampa Bay a critter's place for clean living. ...more

November 8, 2007