A new $85,000 watershed study, conducted in partnership with Polk County, will examine the city’s pumping system and broader ...

Polk County has opened a temporary shelter for residents displaced by flooding after overnight storms. County Judge Sydney Murphey has issued a local declaration of disaster, and a temporary ...

Lake Bonny saw historic flooding from Hurricane Milton, and the city hopes to find "projects and things to address" to ...

Milton had already brought tons of rain to Polk County on Wednesday. Much of the county was under tornado warnings and flash flood warnings by early Wednesday afternoon, and the rain continued ...

Homes, cars and streets were flooded with rainwater for days — and even weeks — after Hurricane Milton, which overwhelmed ...

On Sunday at 1:03 a.m. the National Weather Service issued an updated flood warning valid from 2 a.m. until Monday 10:24 a.m. for Benton and Polk counties. The weather service states, "Minor ...

“Our flood insurance company is trying to deny fixing the foundation and we obviously can’t rebuild the inside of the house without the foundation being fixed,” Wells said. So, the Wells are ...

Polk County Manager Bill Beasley will be sending ... which has been above the 10-year flood stage since the heavy rains we had in May." At the time, Lakeland had a 12-inch pump operating under ...

Lakeland, Polk County and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, often called Swiftmud, met Jan. 8 and agreed this is the course of action they want to take. "From that, we should be able to ...