The budget includes $10 million for Polk State College's planned Haines City-Davenport campus and $6.1 million for its ...

Knocking off the likes of Favre has gotten Edinger into the 2025 Polk County Sports Hall of Fame, along with Dean Johnson, ...

Winter Haven ended the year in the final four at Florida State back in May for the first time in school history, continuing ...

Fifteen men and one woman between the ages of 22 and 48 were detained in the Florida Panhandle, federal prosecutors say.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating a listeria outbreak that has killed three people and caused the loss of a fetus.

The nominees applied for openings created by the retirement of County Judge Mary Catherine Green and the resignation of ...

The Polk Arts & Health Collaborative is modeled after the NeuroArts Blueprint, an initiative from Johns Hopkins University ...

Look up your county in our interactive table to see if or what agreements your local law-enforcement agencies have with ICE.

Now, Tedesco is a member of U20 Team USA. What a moment in time for Lake Gibson’s harbinger of girls wrestling. “It’s pretty ...

Isaiah Deyant became the first Haines City track athlete to medal twice at the state meet in a quarter of a century.

A McDonald's restaurant has been proposed for Kathleen Road near Duff Road, expanding a little commercial cluster in this formerly rural landscape.

Watch out for mail-based scams, the U.S. Postal Service said last week. Here are tips on how to protect yourself from fraud ...