Newly released data from Realtor.com for October shows that potential buyers and sellers in Polk County saw higher home sale prices than the previous month's median of $290,000.

Some say Florida has more than 200 ghost towns. Here's a list of some and the story of one that was founded by a 19th-century ...

The whip rarely touched the cow; usually, it just gave the animal a little encouragement. Legend says the crack of the whip is the source of the nickname "cracker," although many old-time Floridians ...

The Smithsonian Institution in the 1850s recruited hundreds of citizen scientists across the nation to track when they saw ...

A Grand Jury has been called and people have been subpoenaed to appear in Bartow, the seat of Polk County, as an investigation into Monique Worrell’s administration before she was suspended from ...

According to the study released Friday, the Lakeland-Winter Haven metro area, which encompasses all of Polk County, ranked fourth in the nation for net in-migration, and first in Florida.

Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

Clear skies with colder temperatures are in store for Central Florida for the weekend before a slight warming Sunday and Monday, but then the real cold air will hit, according to the National ...

President-elect Donald Trump has doubled down on his suggestion of a merged United States and Canada following Canadian Prime ...

The cold Sunday morning in Central Florida is set to warm up under sunny skies with highs hitting the 70s as the region gets a two-day reprieve before the next cold front comes through ...