Lakeland, Lake Wales and Lakeland Christian at 1-2-3 lead the way in The Ledger's Polk County high school football rankings through four weeks.

The cameras in front of Horizons Elementary will go online Sept. 21, looking for drivers traveling more than 10 mph over the ...

Florida is among those states with the lowest annual salaries for teachers, according to a new report by WalletHub.

Bartow's Barron won the George Jenkins Invitational, and here are the Polk County golf results. Find out how Barron now ...

Haines City's proposed budget likely means lower property taxes and fire assessments. Yet the city still expects more revenue because of new construction.

State Sen. Angie Nixon and former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham are scheduled to speak Sept. 19 at an event in Lakeland.

Medical examiner's autopsy, detectives' testimony and security video were presented on Day 2 of TJ Wiggins' trial in the 2020 Frostproof killings.

Florida Southern College professor James M. Denham opens the Florida Lecture Series with tales of "Charles Hawkins, Sailor of ...

Alexis "Lexi" Kramer, 22, was a passenger in a McLaren driven by fellow influencer James Wehr when it crashed Sept. 13 in ...

An Orlando man has been arrested and detained for ICE after the Polk County Sheriff's Office said he fled a fatal hit-and-run ...

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds will speak at the Lakeland campus at 9:30 a.m. Democratic state Sen. Rosalind Osgood will speak at 12 ...

After opening statements in TJ Wiggins' murder trial, the mother of one victim recounted the frantic call they got from her dying son that night.