"It’s a day when I reflect upon what made my own service so meaningful, because truthfully, I received so much more than I ...

Changes are coming for the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex in Auburndale: an office expansion, a stadium sponsorship deal and the ...

George Jenkins paced two more runners in the top 15 to finish regional runner-up. Sam Otero ran 16:08.40 to finish seventh, ...

Lakeland, and Rep. Josie Tomkow, R-Polk City, were picked to chair committees in the Florida House for the 2025 session.

A 20-foot-deep sinkhole appeared in the front yard of a Royal Crest Drive home in Highland City on Thursday near the same ...

Roy Fuoco, Dustin Levy, Alex Peterman and Jon Santucci break down each region in Class 5A. Jon Santucci. Watch Next ...

It's Week 12 of the Polk County high school football season. Here are highlights from Wednesday and Thursday night’s action ...

Christopher Madison of Winter Haven pled not guilty on five counts related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A young child died Thursday afternoon in a fiery single-car accident near Lake Parker in Lakeland. The Polk County Sheriff's ...

GiveWell Community Foundation and United Way of Central Florida offered $80,000 in grants to provide hurricane relief for nonprofit organizations.

The Polk County Commission approved the purchase two years after local voters revived a land-conservation program whose ...

Instead of honking horns in traffic jams, the public can sound off in person twice in November at the County Administration ...