Publix will open a new grocery store in Davenport, Florida, on June 25. This marks the third of five new Publix locations ...

Polk County nixes 150-home Deeson Road plan after locals and 1,000+ petitioners cite flooding on Blackwater Creek.

A developer says Lakeland, and Polk County, is drawing interest as a potential hotspot for data centers. Here's why, and how ...

Generative AI-generated fictions are growing like weeds in court filings throughout the country. The Florida Supreme Court is ...

Trustees unanimously appoint Anastasios 'Stasi' Kamoutsas as Polk State's sixth president; starts July 6.

The motorcyclist lost control after the bike made contact with the rear of a trailer of a stopped semi-truck, the Polk ...

For all the years he spent in law and on Florida's Supreme Court, Fred Lewis' biggest impact might have been in the classroom ...

Students walk across the A painted in the center of the field as friends and family watch from the stands during Commencement Exercises for Auburndale High School at Bruce Canova Stadium in Auburndale ...

Polk County has digitized a book of historic cattle brands from the 1860s to the 1940s, preserving local ranching history.

A 77-year-old Winter Haven woman died in a two-vehicle crash June 2 near Winter Haven, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office said a Haines City officer made $10,000 in fraudulent charges on his girlfriend's deceased ...

Eagle Lake residents have been given 60 days to secure funding to save a historic schoolhouse from demolition. A recent study ...