Fourteen schools run by the district improved their grades in 2024-25, including five that improved from a D to a C. None of ...

Graduation rates in Polk County increased from 78% to 83%, according to state data.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $3 million for an emergency operations center and fire facility in Haines City and $1 million for a municipal annex.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office and the Lakeland Police Department helped to arrest 28 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang linked to a gas station shooting in New Smyrna Beach, authorities said.

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

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A three-judge federal appellate panel unanimously upheld Florida's 2022 congressional redistricting maps, and in particular, Congressional District 5, which spans over 200 ...

Fisher then was a Brevard County commissioner, representing a North Brevard district that includes Titusville — once known as "Space City USA" and "Miracle City," in nods to the space program ...

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 ...

The investigations collectively seized a staggering 64 pounds of fentanyl – enough to claim millions of lives and marking the most significant single seizure in Polk County's history.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Walking up the historical stairs at the Polk County Historical Museum is the curator of exhibitions, Bartholomew Delcamp. While that might be his official title with the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Polk County is set to receive $30 million dollars, over the next 18 years to fight what city leaders are calling an opioid crisis in the county.