Knocking off the likes of Favre has gotten Edinger into the 2025 Polk County Sports Hall of Fame, along with Dean Johnson, ...

The budget includes $10 million for Polk State College's planned Haines City-Davenport campus and $6.1 million for its ...

Never underestimate the importance of having confidence as a hitter. Last year, one bad game caused Lake Region outfielder ...

Makenna Meadows is the pitcher of the year, Chic Jenkins is the hitter of the year, and Monica Villanueva is the coach of the ...

Junior Winter Haven beach volleyball player Kindyl Goff’s best moment in the season wasn’t solo.

Winter Haven ended the year in the final four at Florida State back in May for the first time in school history, continuing ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating a listeria outbreak that has killed three people and caused the loss of a fetus.

Look up your county in our interactive table to see if or what agreements your local law-enforcement agencies have with ICE.

The nominees applied for openings created by the retirement of County Judge Mary Catherine Green and the resignation of ...

A McDonald's restaurant has been proposed for Kathleen Road near Duff Road, expanding a little commercial cluster in this formerly rural landscape.

The Polk Arts & Health Collaborative is modeled after the NeuroArts Blueprint, an initiative from Johns Hopkins University ...

Now, Tedesco is a member of U20 Team USA. What a moment in time for Lake Gibson’s harbinger of girls wrestling. “It’s pretty ...