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Handmade Pasta and Wood-Fired Pizza Head Downtown as Trattoria Napoli Eyes July 23 Opening

A chef-driven "modern Italian trattoria" is targeting a July 23 opening on 7th Street, bringing house-made pasta, a Wood Stone pizza oven and about 128 seats to the heart of Zephyrhills.

Free Fireworks Return to Dade City for America's 250th on July 4 — Here's What East Pasco Families Should Know

Dade City closes out Pasco County's America 250 celebrations with a free fireworks finale over John S. Burks Memorial Park at about 9 p.m. on July 4 — and Wesley Chapel has its own patriotic events the same night.

Zephyrhills Hits Pause on Data Centers as Final Vote Looms June 22

The City Council unanimously backed a one-year moratorium on data-center permits, rezonings and site plans — giving Zephyrhills time to write rules before any project arrives. A final vote is set for June 22.

Zephyrhills Council to Vote Monday on Dedicated Stormwater Fee

A proposed stormwater assessment up for a vote June 22 would fund drainage projects, maintenance and staffing — and could land on November tax bills.

Historic Home Theater Revival Takes Shape on Zephyrhills' 5th Avenue

Analysts Warn Florida’s Property Tax Amendment Could Squeeze Pasco County Services

Florida voters will decide in November whether to dramatically expand the homestead exemption — a change backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that supporters call overdue tax relief and that state analysts, county groups and local officials warn could pull billions of dollars out of the budgets that pay for fire trucks, deputies and roads. In fast-growing, property-tax-dependent Pasco County, the stakes are unusually high.

Pasco Is Growing — So Why Are Its Schools Cutting 500 Positions?

How Much Could Pasco Homeowners Save Under DeSantis’s Property Tax Plan? We Ran the Numbers

Community Pushback Helps Halt 628-Home Development on Abbey Golf Course Near San Antonio, Florida

A proposal to replace the longtime Abbey Golf Course with hundreds of new homes was turned down last week after a standing-room-only hearing in St. Leo — a rare pause in the wave of subdivisions reshaping east Pasco County.

Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco to Resign in November, Who will be Next Sheriff of Pasco?

Two Rivers Brings Thousands of New Homes to Zephyrhills as Pressure Builds on Aging Road Network

The massive master-planned community taking shape off State Road 56 is reshaping the future of Zephyrhills, but residents and city leaders say the roads carrying that growth, particularly Chancey Road and the US-301 corridor, were not built to handle what is coming.

Zephyrhills Steadily Expands City Limits as Industrial Corridor Reshapes the Map

The City of Zephyrhills has been quietly redrawing its boundaries one parcel at a time, with a string of annexations pulling more land into the corporate limits even as a residential building moratorium remains in effect through 2026

Everything Pasco Residents Need to Know About Reclaimed Water

How Zephyrhills Became "The City of Pure Water" — And Then a National Brand

The bright turquoise label sits in coolers from Tampa to Atlanta, but the story behind Zephyrhills bottled water starts just a few miles south of downtown, in a quiet stretch of east Pasco County where 72-degree spring water has been drawing visitors for more than a century.