Lake Wales Mayor Jack Hilligoss, the senior pastor at HighPoint Church, welcomed Rep. Byron Donalds to the pulpit during a ...

Lake Wales Charter Schools announced that Marte Wilson has been appointed as principal at Edward W. Bok Academy North in Lake ...

The Lakeland Symphony Orchestra will open its concert series on Oct. 10 with a program recognizing the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Invest 92L is expected to become a tropical depression soon and could strengthen into the season's ninth named storm, Isaias.

A jury has recommended that TJ Wiggins get life in prison without parole for gunning down three men in Frostproof in 2020.

A crash involving a Polk County Public Schools bus on the morning of Oct. 5 has forced the closure of Lucerne Park Road.

Here are photos from the scene of a fatal school bus crash that happened the morning of Oct. 5 in Winter Haven.

Two people, including a Winter Haven High School student, died after a crash involving a Polk County school bus and two other ...

Biscayne Bay is a "rare example" of a successful shark nursery near a major metropolitan area, according to a recent report.

Abiding by a state mandate, Polk law enforcement agencies removed or deactivated Flock cameras on state rights-of-way. But some cameras didn't go far.

Leaders of the Fort Meade recall effort are gathering signatures on petitions for the second phase of the campaign against ...

Polk County is heading toward 1 million residents by 2030, and Polk State is committed to meeting those needs, President Anastasios Kamoutsas writes.