The owners of the Tampa Bay Rowdies professional soccer team withdrew its request to build a 5,000-seat stadium in Town 'N Country this morning after it appeared county commissioners were preparing to vote against a zoning change. ...more

January 13, 2009

Owners of the Rowdies professional soccer team will seek a rezoning from the Hillsborough County Commission today for construction of a 5,000-seat stadium in Town 'N Country. ...more

January 13, 2009

A 4,000-gallon fuel tank inside the Tampa Convention Center is at the center of a dispute between the city and county over whether the tank poses an environmental hazard. ...more

January 3, 2009

The leak has been repaired, the lines reburied and the water and traffic are flowing again. ...more

December 31, 2008

The winding detour, sandy-covered streets, rattling machinery and stifling stench of flowing, raw sewage should now be a thankfully-buried part of Sun City Center's past. ...more

December 10, 2008

The smelly air around a Tampa chemical plant is about to get a scrubbing. ...more

November 20, 2008

After denying there was a problem, General Chemical has agreed to install scrubbers in the stack of its Palmetto Beach plant near the Port of Tampa. ...more

November 19, 2008

It's environment for the sake of development. Entrepreneur Bill Casey is creating a 161-acre wetland mitigation bank in which developers can buy credits in repentance for destroying swampland elsewhere. ...more

November 7, 2008

It's official: A chemical plant at the edge of a Tampa neighborhood stinks. ...more

October 26, 2008

The state Department of Environmental Protection wants to make it easier for people to dispose of wood and food waste on their properties and is considering lifting some regulations. ...more

October 5, 2008