The Polk County Sheriff's Office said a Haines City officer made $10,000 in fraudulent charges on his girlfriend's deceased ...

Summer on a college campus is a time for reflection. The normally raucous campus is quiet. The feeling of loss, of absence, is pervasive. And we all have another loss ― particularly painful and ...

A Polk County board denied a proposal for a 150-home subdivision in rural Kathleen for the third time since 2022. Local residents, including a 12-year-old girl, raised significant concerns about ...

A record of Polk County's agricultural history dating to the 1800s has taken a big gallop forward. Polk County's Clerk of Courts Stacy M. Butterfield has overseen the preservation of books listing ...

Legal representatives for a proposed Lakeland data center canceled a meeting with the city's Development Review Committee. The cancellation followed the development team receiving a 13-page report ...

A 77-year-old woman died in a two-vehicle crash June 2 near Winter Haven, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported. PCSO deputies were dispatched at 8:07 a.m., along with Polk County Fire Rescue, to ...

A proposed hyperscale data center in Lakeland is actively under review by city staff and has raised concerns related to zoning, power demands and water needs. City staff have drafted an extensive ...

It was once the second restaurant in the Hooters chain, but closed in 2024. Now a different type of chicken and decor will ...

More than 50 residents turned out to urge city officials to ask tough questions about water and power needs and other impacts ...

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, a professor at Florida Southern College since 2019, died May 26 at age 78.

Florida’s motor vehicle system is crashing, and Polk County Tax Collector Joe G. Tedder says the outages are causing delays.

Students walk across the A painted in the center of the field as friends and family watch from the stands during Commencement Exercises for Auburndale High School at Bruce Canova Stadium in Auburndale ...