The sports fee of $400, authorized by a new state law, applies to private school athletes, but not home-school or ...

Someone in Delray Beach bought the winning Florida Lotto ticket for Saturday, May 30, 2026, from a Publix in Boca Raton and ...

The number of Polk County entities offering LGBTQ Pride proclamations has dropped from 10 in 2019 to just two this year.

An energy technology expert at Villanova University said he knows of no hyperscale data centers that rely entirely on a ...

Retired Lakeland police officers have started a petition asking the city for annual cost‑of‑living increases in their pensions.

Dean Boring, who evolved his family business through decades of technological change and served on the city commission from ...

Polk Pride begins June 13 and runs through June 20, with six events in Lakeland. The centerpiece, Pride in the Park, takes ...

People all across Florida, including many in Polk County got a feel of a 6.1-magnitude quake in the ocean near Cuba.

Nearly 20 public schools in Polk County will have new principals in the fall. The moves result from retirements, internal ...

Twanna Dewdney was a rebellious teen, once arrested for fighting. Now she's a business owner, minister and passionate ...

As rooftops flourish, Polk County will gain a second Publix grocery store in the month of June. This time in Davenport. In a ...

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