Hillsborough County

Like so many other phosphate mining towns, Coronet thrived just south of Plant City until the 1960s. Thought it no longer exists, its residents recall a bustling industry and a tight-knit community.

A cancerous chemical, only recently on the radar of environmental officials, called 1,4-Dioxane has been detected on the property. It spreads fast out and down when it comes into contact with groundwater.

Symptoms of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne illness, include a high fever, severe headache, eye pain and muscle and joint pain. lt is rarely fatal.

Carbon credit programs have come under scientific scrutiny for overstating how much they help the climate.

Carbon credit programs have come under scientific scrutiny for overstating how much they help the climate.

Kim Byer, the assistant county administrator for public works, explains how the department chooses which projects are bumped to the top of the priority list.

School advocates are hopeful a property tax referendum will pass after a similar proposal failed in 2022. But some officials point out that having two tax measures on the ballot are asking voters for too much.

It may feel like the county's roadways are always jammed. These two engineer associates are tasked with clearing up some of the congestion that crashes and closures create in real time.

For 60 days, a company plans to capture one ton of carbon dioxide daily from the county's waste-to-energy plant, which produces 600 tons of carbon dioxide a day.

Brundage filed the paperwork to run in House District 65, which is held by Rep. Karen Gonzalez Pittman, R-Tampa, according to the state Division of Elections website.

Bike boxes are the green-painted, L-shaped sections of roadways at signal-controlled intersections. Officials say there have been up to 50% reductions in crashes between cars and bikes where the boxes are used.

A panel in September alleged that Circuit Judge Nancy Jacobs made “inappropriate and disparaging” remarks about then-Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Jared Smith and improperly injected partisan politics into the campaign for his seat.