LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – People hoping for a congressional district representing all of Polk County only had a short-lived victory. Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed that map drawn by the legislature. The ...

Supervisors voted 4-0 to approve both the first reading of the plan and a change to the county's zoning map to accommodate it, although the Polk County Zoning Commission on Nov. 28 voted 5-1 to ...

The vote on Nov. 3, 1970 was 18,002 to 15,832. Voters had rejected the idea in referendums held in 1952, 1958 and 1965. Along with zoning — up to then you could build anything anywhere — came ...