Construction of a new $1.4 million Pasco County fire station in San Antonio soon will be under way, a bit of progress that brings excitement tinged with melancholy to those in the city's downtown.

By David Rice, Times Correspondent Friday, May 25, 2012 Members of the West Pasco Little League Angels cheer after they won their division bracket last Saturday in district 12. The team went 11-4 and swept the Blue Division in the postseason. The West Pasco Little League Angels won their division bracket last Saturday in district 12. The team went 11-4 for the season, sweeping the Blue Division ...

Pasco County is taking health care to the streets with a medical office on wheels to tend to homeless people and residents with little or no insurance.

By Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer Saturday, May 26, 2012 LAND O'LAKES — Words matter. And when you get only 75 of them, they take on an even greater significance. That's why Pasco County government and School District officials are spending so much time writing and rewriting the ballot language they expect to put before voters in November, asking them to renew the Penny for Pasco sales ...

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By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Saturday, May 5, 2012 As Pasco officials prepare to ask voters for another decade of the Penny for Pasco sales tax, the county has not spent or budgeted nearly $30 million of expected revenue from the first round. Much of that cash includes a planned contingency fund, savings from falling construction costs and money for environmental land purchases that are ...

Third-grade students in Pasco County slightly outperformed their peers in reading across the state, but fared much worse in math, according to FCAT 2.0 scores released today.

The state Department of Education released FCAT writing results on Friday, but just how well Pasco and other school districts performed depends on how you view the numbers.

The Pasco County School Board could cut nearly 90 jobs and require all employees to take three unpaid furlough days as part of an effort to deal with an anticipated $24.7 million budget shortfall in 2012-13.

Special to the Times Friday, May 25, 2012 . Pasco Note to readers Once a week, the Pasco Times provides a seven-day report of higher-priority sheriff and police calls, sorted by ZIP code and by the block to which an officer was dispatched. A report does not mean an arrest was made. To protect victim confidentiality, we do not include sexual assaults or abuse of children or of the elderly. Crime ...