Osceola County is tackling its persistent traffic issues with a series of road improvement projects, aiming to accommodate a ...

There’s something magical about that moment when you’re standing in a sea of treasures, holding some peculiar trinket you never knew existed, yet suddenly can’t imagine living without. That’s the ...

As we approach the 4th of July, there are many communities and local groups that are putting on celebrations across the Tampa ...

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, a unit of FDOT, resumed the project last May, launching an alternative corridor study for the 28-mile eastern segment known as Central Polk Parkway East.

Soto requested funding for 15 projects, one of them in Polk County — $4 million for a pedestrian and child safety project in Poinciana. Soto’s district used to cover much of eastern Polk County.

Here's who's on the ballot and everything you need to know to be an informed voter in the Nov. 5, 2024 election in Lee County, Florida.

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Polk County filed a complaint in Circuit Court against Lake Wales and its CRA, seeking to block the planned doubling of the district’s boundaries.

For the first time in 20 years, an election is guaranteed to produce a new member of the Polk County School Board in District 2. Lori Cunningham, who has served five terms, decided not to seek ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — As the Tampa Bay area continues to face dry conditions, Polk County fire crews are spending Thursday morning working to contain several brush fires.

His office will work with Polk County Public Schools on the district’s new bus camera program. By next school year, all of the county’s more than 500 school buses will have stop arm cameras.

Black voters in Florida could regain a congressional district where they make up a sizable share of the population, if voting rights groups prevail in an ongoing legal battle.