TAMPA - A central figure who helped forge a much-criticized relationship between Lowry Park Zoo and its CEO's for-profit exotic-animal park has resigned from the zoo's board of directors. ...more

October 17, 2008

Two names have been suggested for a new high school under construction near Interstate 4 and McIntosh Road. ...more

September 25, 2008

Two names have been suggested for a new high school under construction near Interstate 4 and McIntosh Road. ...more

September 24, 2008

The Hillsborough County School Board continues to try to figure out how to unravel a transportation mess. ...more

September 17, 2008

In her first visit to a Temple Crest Civic Association meeting since being elected to Tampa City Council, Mary Mulhern knew she would be asked about the residents' campaign to get traffic-calming devices installed on neighborhood streets. ...more

September 17, 2008

Some Brandon residents would like one of the area's newest public schools to be named in honor of one of its oldest residents. ...more

September 17, 2008

A Personal Account The Hillsborough County Public Schools Transportation Department is getting hundreds of calls a day. Either hundreds of people have wrong numbers or there are hundreds of irate parents who are irritated over school bus transportation. I think it's the latter of the two. ...more

September 13, 2008

A schoolteacher accused of having sex with a student might change her not guilty plea within the next two weeks. ...more

September 11, 2008

Hillsborough County School Board member Susan Valdes asked fellow board members Tuesday at a workshop to consider what Brevard County is doing: Charge parents who live closer than two miles to their school a fee to transport their children. ...more

September 10, 2008

The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday struck three amendments from November's ballot - one that would have wiped out a quarter or more of your property tax bill, and two more that could have expanded school voucher programs in Florida. ...more

September 4, 2008