Lakeland is the only No. 1 seed, and Fort Mead advanced in a new Rural B tournament called the Florida Invitational Tournament.

For two hours, residents of the Lake Bonny area told Lakeland city commissioners about rancid, sewage-infested floodwaters stagnating inside their homes for weeks, freckling walls with moldand ruining ...

GiveWell Community Foundation and United Way of Central Florida offered $80,000 in grants to provide hurricane relief for nonprofit organizations.

Instead of honking horns in traffic jams, the public can sound off in person twice in November at the County Administration ...

Polk County officials are working to address a 20-foot-deep sinkhole that opened Wednesday on the front lawn of a Highland ...

For all of the scores of tonight's games with Polk County teams, keep checking back here throughout the night.

Source: Election results are from The Associated Press. The Times publishes its own estimates for each candidate’s share of ...

Even before Polk County’s 172 precincts open for Election Day voting at 7 a.m. Tuesday, more than 51% of eligible voters had already cast ballots. Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards predicts a ...