Andy Ireland, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993, switched his affiliation from Democrat to ...

Polk County voters who have submitted ballots by mail can check on the ballot’s status through the website of the Polk County ...

The airline's first flights from Lakeland to Charlotte, N.C., Manchester, N.H., Rochester, N.Y., and San Juan, Puerto Rico ...

AccuWeather: "We suspect there will be another attempt for a tropical depression or tropical storm to brew in the western Caribbean" next week.

Will a $2 Powerball lottery ticket make you a multimillionaire? A ticket in Georgia just hit the jackpot! The winning numbers ...

WINTER HAVEN — Rylee Tanner’s senior year nearly came to a premature end in late September when she sustained a severe ankle ...

LAKELAND — Kathleen senior Darby Hancock and Frostproof freshman Hannah Castillo often text each other and meet at local golf ...

Here are this week's picks as Polk County high school football teams play for the district and solidify playoff rankings.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have brought two pumps to Lakeland and were prepared to start draining floodwaters from Lake Bonny starting late Wednesday afternoon.

LAKELAND — When teammates Leah Parker and McKenzie Hilton compete in high school diving, it can hardly be described as a rivalry as they’re not really competing against each other. It’s more like they ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has brought two large pumps capable of moving 4,000 cubic yards of water per second from Lake Bonny to Lake Parker.

This online-only column is part of a series of shorter opinion essays by USA Today Network-Florida columnist Nate Monroe on ...