Grant News

County commissioners agreed Tuesday to help Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute seek a $19,000 Florida Sea Grant to determine how much of the Indian River Lagoon's nutrient pollution comes from leaking septic tanks.

A delegation from Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector will present an overview of the company's space technology portfolio, including programs such as the James Webb Space Telescope, that are leading the next generation into space, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Florida Institute of Technology's Gleason Performing Arts Center.

Space Coast Area Transit plans to seek a state grant to help it start bus service to Orlando in 2015.

Is prison a person's long-term residence if he or she is sentenced to spend 10 or more years there? Brevard County Property Appraiser says so, and adds long-term prisoners should lose their homestead exemptions.