Bonnet Springs was transformed from a railyard into an expansive park featuring trails, botanical gardens and even a museum.

Bonnet Springs Park has been named USA Today’s Best City Park of 2025. This is a national recognition that happened due to ...

Madalynne Brooks was a leader in Lakeland's NAACP branch, spurred to action by a hanging outside her father's church.

Unincorporated areas of Polk County, along with other cities within the county, are now under a burn ban as dry conditions create an increased risk of brush fires.

The expansion of Polk County ... Florida’s premier birdwatching sites. Winter Haven purchased the 370-acre Bradco Farm property east of Buckeye Loop and is working through the design phase, city ...

Board members received a letter from Frederick Murphy and Drew Crawford, interim attorneys for Polk County Public Schools, outlining the legal guidelines for millage levies. Florida law allows ...

Jeffrey Wofford Stidham, a former Polk County judicial hearing officer and ... was a fifth-generation resident of the city. Stidham’s father, Wofford, was an attorney who helped establish ...

A man is facing charges after he was accused of impersonating an officer while conducting a traffic stop Monday in Orange ...

He said when he bought the land at the intersection of U.S. Highway 17 and U.S. 27 in Haines City, some people he knew did not understand why. Florida woman’s body found hidden in man’s resort ...

serving as a hearing officer in Florida's 13th and 10th judicial circuits. (This story was revised to make a correction.) Jeffrey Wofford Stidham, a former Polk County judicial hearing officer and ...