Rapid growth in Florida's Heartland weighs heavily on aging infrastructure. Paving new roads harms already imperiled ...

The National Weather Service in Jacksonville is warning that, based on current forecasts, records could be set or tied as ...

Once considered one of Florida's top courses, it's fallen into disrepair. Now the owner wants to put 1,100 more homes in the ...

A tropical wave in the central Atlantic and another in the Caribbean are moving west as we approach the start of hurricane ...

Record high temperatures may be coming to some areas of Florida. Expect temperatures to ... NOAA heat risk map The most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses are children, babies and older adults ...

Dave Schmitt, an engineer and authorized agent for the owners, requested approval of a future land use map ... Florida company FLLWCC bought the property for $700,000, according to Polk County ...

Their shoes slipping through yellow sand, Nancy Bissett and Steve Riefler followed an unpublished graduate thesis like a treasure map. They snuck through ... If central Florida is the state's ...

The sheriff's increase for the year was a little more than 12%, county documents show. In central Florida’s Polk County, which has a similar population to Lee County, longtime Sheriff Grady Judd ...

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Polk County said the Alligator Alley Trail at Circle B Bar Reserve is back open to the public after being damaged in Hurricane Milton.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — As hundreds of boaters descend on lakes across Polk County for Memorial Day, soon they will have restrictions. Being able to live on a peaceful and pristine lake has always ...

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — In a move to improve safety on local lakes, the Polk County Board of County Commissioners approved an ordinance repealing and restating the Polk County Waterway Protection ...