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A virtual public information meeting will be held April 21 at 6 p.m. An in-person open house will take place April 22 in ...
The director of the cooperative said getting the $10 million grant reduces the member cities' costs, which "reduces the amount the taxpayers will have to pay." ...
Several new wildfires in Florida have sent residents fleeing their homes and closed roadways to traffic. The Sunshine State ...
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) helped find a man who went missing from a nursing home in Poinciana.
Bonnet Springs Park has been named USA Today’s Best City Park of 2025. This is a national recognition that happened due to ...
As the drought worsens, more Florida counties have issued burn bans.Here's the dry weather outlook and where the fires are burning.
Former Florida Sen. Lauren Book came to Lakeland on Tuesday for a segment of her nonprofit’s monthlong Walk in My Shoes event ...
Polk County's average drought index reading surpassed 500 on Tuesday, indicating an elevated chance of wildfires.
The six-mile-long widening near Disney World should help lessen the gridlock drivers typically deal with from U.S. 27 in Polk County to World Drive in Osceola County.
A man faces a list of charges after Polk County deputies say he violently threatened his partner, then set his camper on fire ...
A Polk County woman out on probation is back behind bars, this time for allegedly running over her estranged husband’s new girlfriend.
Construction of “congestion relief lanes” on Interstate 4 in Polk County has finished eight months ahead of schedule, Florida ...