Generative AI-generated fictions are growing like weeds in court filings throughout the country. The Florida Supreme Court is ...

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

For all the years he spent in law and on Florida's Supreme Court, Fred Lewis' biggest impact might have been in the classroom ...

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 ...

Anastasios “Stasi” Kamoutsas was unanimously appointed as the sixth president of Polk State College. Kamoutsas, the former Florida commissioner of education, was the sole finalist recommended by the ...

A 77-year-old Winter Haven woman died in a two-vehicle crash June 2 near Winter Haven, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office ...

Eagle Lake residents have been given 60 days to secure funding to save a historic schoolhouse from demolition. A recent study ...

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

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

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 ...

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.