Hillsborough News

The weathered and worn clock faces at the Brewster Memorial Hall clock tower are getting a $34,000 facelift.

A debate over one man's proposed appointment to a diversity committee led Hillsborough County commissioners on Wednesday to scuttle plans for the panel - for now.

The question of whether or not to post deputies on Hillsborough County elementary school campuses has been a hot-button issue ever since the Dec.

It's been a moving target since Dec. 14: What is the best way to keep the Hillsborough County public schools safe, and who should pay for those efforts? A possible answer appeared Tuesday in the form of a letter from Sheriff David Gee.

The newly formed Tampa Hillsborough Film and Digital Media Commission on Monday launched a nationwide search for an industry professional to run the reorganized commission.

The former director of real estate services for Hillsborough County was sentenced to a year in prison Monday for his role in a 2006 Tennessee mortgage scheme.

The good news as far as officials with Hillsborough County's transit agency HART are concerned, is that, unlike in recent years, there is no danger of services being cut or reduced in the future.

Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown shared his personal story tonight before a sold-out crowd at a fundraising event for the Child Advocacy Center of "We're honored to have such an inspirational figure speaking at this year's gala," said Dan Monfried, Board President of the Granite State Children's Alliance, parent of the Hillsborough charity.

This week commissioners approved a smart plan to reduce the terrible number of animals killed at the county shelter yearly.

Police arrested a St. Petersburg man they said had sex with a 16-year-old girl who lives in Hillsborough County.

The question of whether to merge the public transit systems of Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties is back on the agenda.