Lightning and heavy rain interrupted the meet early and then shortened it after it resumed, but enough events were completed to crown team champions. With the boys and girls each completing eight of ...

Closures related to demolition of the State Road 33 bridge at Interstate 4 in Polk County will begin Oct. 11, FDOT said.

A runoff for Polk County School Board pits Victor Sims against appointed incumbent Kate Wallace. The nonpartisan race has a distinctly partisan tinge.

The Fort Meade City Commission approved the settlement with Veronica Hairston, the former human resources director and chief ...

Polk County Public Schools held a ceremony on Oct. 6 to name the music building at Jewett Middle Academy in honor of the late ...

A free screening of the documentary “Lake Wales Envisioned” will take place Oct. 20 at Heritage Hill in Lake Wales.

Lake Wales used its off week to work on cleaning up its execution, and if there is to be a payoff of all that work, it wasn’t ...

An increasing fight with shredding wind shear is expected to knock down the intensity of Isaias but it is still expected to ...

Florida has reported 162 measles cases this year, a significant increase from previous decades. A satirical political ...

Fundraising campaigns have been created for the families of Adinaluz Guadalupe Prieto Oyola and Deshawn Smith, both of whom ...

Lakeland, faces Democrat Ricky Santiago and non-party candidate Jarvis Washington in the Florida House District 50 election.

Polk County contributed $750,000 toward a conservation easement on the 375-acre Walter Farms property, a cattle ranch located ...