The program helps homeowners pay for elevating homes or applying other changes to mitigate risk, even in some cases ...

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 ...

Timothy Coon was Polk County's first Black judge, a retired Air Force Reserve officer, an avid golfer, a married man of 48 ...

Schools around the U.S. are closing due to surges of flu and other illnesses, which are sickening students and staff. Here's what parents need to know.

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 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.

Nick Polk spent 17 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons director of football operations, where he was responsible for salary cap ...

The announcement that the National Institutes of Health will cap funding for medical research has researchers fearful that their work will be decimated, NPR reports. The move could cost institutions ...

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

Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains in the state’s bottom 10. The Florida Department of Education this ...

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 ...