As of Feb. 14, there are 17 Florida counties with a drought index over 500, which indicates drought and increased fire danger ...

On Feb. 1 at the Carber Recreation Center in Bartow, the inaugural Girls Polk County Championships, also known as the Girls ...

Members of Polk's transportation planning board seemed to want to speed up the process for the eastern toll road, but also to ...

It was a three-day undercover operation that landed 29 people in handcuffs, including five people with active felony warrants.

Residents of a Polk County mobile home community are pleading for the safe return of their two beloved black swans and their ...

A recent Florida undercover operation led to a massive human trafficking bust, where 29 people were arrested for prostitution ...

Grist dives into Florida’s ironic water scarcity problem, borne from climate change, a development boom, and the ...

Founded in 1981 in Denver, Colo. and later acquired by the Michigan-based Borisch family, Tommy’s Boats was formerly the ...

Shell’s passion for teaching was sparked as a 14-year-old when he tutored and mentored younger kids at the Boys & Girls Club of Polk County. Shortly after, he founded the nonprofit Positive Leaders of ...

Construction has begun on the Accelerated Start Project which will build two new congestion relief lanes. The lanes will start at U.S. 27 and provide connections to World Drive and 417.

The Alachua Conservation Trust is holding a ceremony on Feb. 28 to mark the grand opening of an 86-acre expansion of the ...