The big story: Florida lawmakers return to Tallahassee ... missed during hurricanes Helene and Milton. Student health: Polk County doctors are raising cautions as the percentage of children ...

The location’s surrounding orange groves, many of which are no longer in full production, present an opportunity to be converted into King Grass cultivation—one of Blue Biofuels’ key energy crops.

That’s something 88-year-old Myrtle Polk knows well. Her son, Philip Polk, knows it, too. He’s been leaning on that very village for the better part of a year — ever since his mother ...

The Polk Education Association president is urging the Polk County School Board to consider a property tax referendum to ...

The reprimand before the Florida Supreme Court came as Judge John Flynn has faced motions to disqualify himself from some ...

United Way of Central Florida has partnered with the IRS to offer several free tax prep sites across Polk County.

Drivers will start seeing heavy equipment and an increased number of crews along I-4 east of U.S. 27, the Florida Department ...

LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College is proud to announce that Polk County's 2024 Teacher of the Year, Cynara Appling, has been awarded a full scholarship to ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

On Saturday, April 5th, Mississippi State will enshrine three Diamond Dawg legends into the Ron Polk Ring of Honor; Ted Milton, Mitch Moreland and Mike Proffitt. Milton and Proffitt played for ...