Lakeland set two historic lows on Feb. 1 and Feb. 2, according to preliminary data from the NWS. And Polk County remains ...

Polk State's District Board of Trustees will meet Feb. 5 to consider appointing retired Florida Southern President Anne Kerr ...

Florida growers were still assessing damage on Monday but one said that a normal precaution taken to protect plants backfired ...

A fatal crash occurred in Davenport involving a semi-truck and a Nissan Sentra. The driver of the Nissan, a 61-year-old ...

One person died as fire consumed a mobile home on Scenic View Street in North Lakeland, Polk County Fire Rescue reported.

10 Lakeland Christian junior Joey Donohue (boys basketball) averaged 19.7 points in three games, scoring 26 points in a win over Fort Meade, which was the Miners’ first loss of the season. For the ...

The federal funding of $2.9 million will allow Florida Polytechnic University to create the Public Service Applied Innovation Laboratory.

Lake Alfred native Jessica Pryce, an author and expert on child protective services, is the main organizer of TEDxLakeAlfred, scheduled for Feb. 21.

Patricia Smithfields, who runs the LB Brown Museum in Bartow, sees lessons of perseverance and humanity in the story of a Bartow pioneer born into slavery.

TJ Wiggins' trial was reset for Sept. 8 in the 2020 Frostproof triple murders. This is the third trial date set by the judge.

Even out-of-state students attending a Florida public university receive more state funding, on average, than local, ...

The median home in Polk County listed for $335,500 in December, down 1.3% from the previous month's $339,900, an analysis of ...