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Pasco County voters settled one competitive County Commission race on Tuesday, but left most of the school board's future undecided — two of three contested seats are now headed to a November runoff.

Incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard defeated Pultorak in the Republican primary for Florida House District 54, taking 68.11% of the vote to Pultorak's 31.89%, according to unofficial results from the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections. Because a write-in candidate is the only name waiting in the general election, Maggard's primary win effectively locks up another term representing east Pasco.

For years, a Wesley Chapel family whose loved one suffered a severe stroke braced for the same grim reality: a transfer out of Pasco County, and a drive to a hospital farther from home while the person they loved lay in a bed they couldn't sit beside. AdventHealth Wesley Chapel is closing that gap.

Youth hockey in Wesley Chapel just got a new home team. The Tampa Bay Jr. Lightning, the NHL club's first-ever directly operated youth hockey program, held its inaugural season kickoff event Saturday, Aug. 15, at AdventHealth Center Ice.

Wesley Chapel's own stretch of Florida beach is turning into a Tampa Bay Rays Watch Party this month, giving local fans a way to cheer on the team without giving up their spot in the water.

A small childcare center on County Line Road spent four days this month turning its classrooms into a relief operation, after a deadly earthquake struck western Colombia earlier this month.

Bumper-to-bumper traffic stretched for miles through the Hawthorne Village neighborhood on the first days of school this week, after a car-line route change at Pinecrest Academy sent drop-off and pickup traffic straight into residential streets instead of out onto County Road 54.

The Second Annual Firefighter Faceoff charity hockey game lands at AdventHealth Center Ice on Saturday, Aug. 22, with puck drop at 6 p.m. and the game running until about 8:30 p.m.

At a public hearing in Dade City, commissioners considered an ordinance that would install automated speed enforcement cameras in school zones countywide. If adopted, drivers caught going more than 10 mph over the posted school-zone limit would receive a $100 ticket in the mail — not from an officer on the roadside, but from a camera reviewed later by a certified traffic enforcement official.

Michael Pultorak, a longtime Wesley Chapel resident and 26-year captain with Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, is challenging incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard in the Republican primary for Florida House District 54 on Aug. 18.

The Pasco County Planning Commission recommended approval of sweeping changes to the Two Rivers development on Wesley Chapel's eastern edge, despite pushback from residents worried about traffic, flooding and water.

Fire Station 2 officially opens with a grand opening celebration on Friday, Aug. 14. County officials say the new facility will cut emergency response times in the area roughly in half.

Pasco County Schools is growing its K-8 model this year, and Wesley Chapel families say the approach is paying off.

Download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store by searching for the Pasco County Schools parent app. You will need your ParentVUE login credentials to access your child's information.

When Chad Mallo was handed a financial literacy curriculum to teach at Angeline Academy of Innovation in Wesley Chapel, he noticed something immediately: the material tracked almost exactly with a professional banking credential he had earned during his 20-year career in the industry. So he picked up the phone and called the CEO of Achieva Credit Union.

If you have ever wanted to eat gator tail sourced from Lacoochee, wash it down with a local craft beer, and sit surrounded by original signs from Pasco County businesses that have been around since before the subdivisions started, The Original Floridian Bar & Grill in Dade City is exactly that — and it just opened.

School starts Thursday. If your child rides the bus and you don't know their route or stop yet, Monday is the day to call. Pasco County Schools' Back-to-School Bus Hotline opens Monday, August 11 — three days before the first bell rings on August 13.

Classes resume Thursday, August 13, and several Wesley Chapel-area schools shifted start-time tiers this year. Before the first morning rush hits, here is every wesley chapel bell time for every Wesley Chapel campus so you can set those alarms correctly.

The State Road 52 corridor between I-75 and the San Antonio area is in the early stages of a buildout that will add approximately 9,500 more homes and millions of square feet of commercial space to the immediate area north of Wesley Chapel

Pasco County mosquito control officials are ramping up surveillance and treatment operations after West Nile virus was detected in sentinel chickens in the county.