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It could cost 2-million dollars or more to add streetlights to University Avenue outside North Port. While there is plenty of lighting at the intersections, University has long stretches without lighting now. THe Herald-Tribune... Read More.

Stop me if you've heard this before. A local interchange project is going to get started later, and cost more, than originally thought. This time it's the diverging diamond interchange at I-75 and... Read More.

Authorities say a single-engine plane piloted by an Engle­wood man plowed into a father and daugh­ter Sun­day after­noon while mak­ing an emer­gency land­ing on Caspersen Beach. The man was killed, his daughter crit­i­cally injured.... Read More.

Endangered species have ground a Port Charlotte waterway clearing project to a halt, but the contractor continues to make $5-thousand a day for doing nothing. Blue Herons nested in Port Charlotte waterways filled with... Read More.

Dozens or people swarmed the sidewalks in front of Bayfront Health Port Charlotte Hospital yesterday picketing against the hospital's forcing a woman to have a birth by C-section. Jennifer Goodall faced legal action against... Read More.

All Florida Power and Light customers in Port Charlotte have their power back. Electricians have fixed frayed power lines in the area. A giant construction crane tipped over yesterday and fell on them at Highway 41... Read More.

Florida's blueberry growers say a shrinking supply of pine bark threatens this blossoming crop. A bark shortage has some people scrambling to find suppliers with enough to sell. Limestone in some parts of the state leave... Read More.

Some Florida lawmakers have pretty deep pockets. The News Service of Florida finds the average state senator has a net worth of $3.7 million. In the House, members have an average net worth of $1.4 million.

Residents of one Sarasota neighborhood say they have finally caught the large tegu lizard on the loose in their community. Fed up with the lizard scaring their pets and eating from their gardens, someone set... Read More.

A solution to next year's projected $3.6 million budget deficit in Sarasota may involve reducing payments to a city employee benefits fund. Meanwhile, Sarasota leaders continue to grapple with this summer's financial problems, brought... Read More.