Audubon raised concerns today that this year´s poor nesting season of Roseate Spoonbills—an important indicator species of Everglades resto...

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State legislators returned to Tallahassee today for the beginning of the annual 60-day legislative session. Getting the most attention this...

After you've spent a day hiking through Florida's preserves along its Nature Coast, you just might find yourself on the back deck o...

A species of millipede which originated in the West Indies but has recently appeared in parts of South Florida seems to have a hallucinogen...

Lighthouses and mariners are strongly bound. Although technology has lessened the mariner’s dependency on traditional lighthouses, the fami...

Acts of government surveillance — from increasing use of closed-circuit televisions and global positioning systems to an array of sophistic...

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As you know, Mayor Pam Iorio wants the area currently known as Curtis Hixon Park to be Tampa’s signature park. Iorio remains insistent in p...

On Friday she introduced an Academic Freedom Act designed to tweak the state's recently adopted educational standard that calls for sci...

Mayor Jim Naugle of Fort Lauderdale has once again used his office to spread fear and hate about the gay community. In the latest city news...

Tammy Clifton wanted her wedding to be the big day she had always dreamed of. But when she recently found out she had breast cancer, that a...

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Rebecca Falcon I anticipated my 16th birthday so that I would be eligible to apply for a job. In all aspects, I was considered a juvenil...

On Friday, Feb. 22, 17-year-old Simmie Williams Jr. was gunned down on a street corner in Broward County. Just 10 days earlier, Lawrence Ki...

Democrats have launched a website www.EmptyChairCharlie.com , that challenges Crist for stepping away from his gubernatorial duties for a l...

The cameras are coming to the area beginning this month, and they'll almost certainly become more widespread if Florida legislators smo...

Under a cloudy sky threatening rain, Bartlett Park resident Andrea Hildebran steps over discarded potato chip bags, torn newspapers and bro...

For generations, carnies have wintered in Gibsonton - "Gib-town" - in south Hillsborough County. They eat and drink at the Showto...

President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops on Sunday to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to ...

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Seriously, southwest Florida is a fantastic place to kayak, with miles of interesting little rivers and estuaries and enough birds to fill ...

Or perhaps, as those of us who are not gullible, Hero-supporting, Macho-Macho-Man-worshipping sheep with blindfolders surgically affixed to...

Silent Tribute to the men and women of the U.S. armed forces who have died in the two conflicts in Iraq is traveling around the country. Re...

Central Avenue From the late 19th century until the mid 1970's, Central Avenue was the principal business and entertainment district of...

Tampa was once the Royal City of Atlantis. Using Plato's description of Atlantis, the film maker matches the Florida terrain with the Gr...

Many charities have got car contribution programs which are indispensable to their ability to raise funds. The cars donated will, if in goo...

Howard Dean said he's open to the possibility. Primary elections are paid for by a state's taxpayers, so the offer from Crist, a Re...

Martine De Wit is a medical examiner, for manatees. If one of the endangered animals is reported dead anywhere in Florida's waters, it&...

The average cost of unleaded gas in the Bay area went up by 3.2 cents on Wednesday to a little over $3.10. That's 3.2 cents in a single...

A middle school teacher 15 years into her second career jumped up and down, hugged everyone in sight and gasped for breath when she learned...

Proving yet again that nobody does bizarre elections like Florida, thousands of loyal Democrats turned out for a rogue election Saturday wh...

Home buyers from around the U.S. and abroad are descending on Florida to buy condominiums that have suffered sharp price drops amid the hou...

Catch a glimpse of Billy Ray Hunter and Carlton Dudley as they try to ride two Floridian Cracker horses from Tampa to Tallahassee in hopes ...

It appears the Almighty Dollar was just too much for Big Brother to handle in this South Florida town. Due to the cost, the Martin County C...

A former special-education teacher says Hillsborough jail deputies violently threw him to the floor of a cell, put a hood over his head whi...

Four days before the Republican primary election in Florida, when it became apparent to many that Sen. John McCain had a good chance of win...

The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and freedom was ...

When state legislators convene a 60-day legislative session March 4, they will discuss creating and funding a successor to the Florida Fore...

Cuba Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Thursday the signing of two human rights treaties responds to a sovereign decision by the Cub...

Burmese pythons, an invasive species now spreading across south Florida, could find comfortable climatic conditions in roughly a third of t...

The story goes that the Florida governor frequented the Green Iguana, a bar in Tampa, back in the early 1990s when he was just starting his...

The owner of the popular restaurant where a gay man was verbally and physically assaulted in a possible hate crime has put up a $5,000 rewa...

The Florida Legislature, following the lead of Virginia, is considering legislation to provide liability immunity for suborbital commercial...

Takes place on Saturday, March 8 at Al Lopez Park. Registration opens at 6:30 a.m. and the walk begins at 7:30 a.m. Participants receive a ...

Exactly two years ago, I typed out the introductory post for my very first blog. Back then it was called The Last Duchess after a favorite ...

The Democratic Party is committed to addressing the needs of the African American community and should take over in the upcoming presidenti...

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The St. Pertersburg Times reported that Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee stood before City Council members holding a report from the D...

Fifth-generation member of the Hernandez-Gonzmart family, which founded the Columbia Restaurant in 1905. Through the Ybor City Chamber, Gon...

My colleague Georgia thinks it wasn’t our fault, but I find it just a little conspicuous that the power went out in all of Southern Florida...