"I guess he opened up the Church to a lot of things,” said Bishop John Noonan, and many people don’t realize the cardinals provided the pope with a mandate.

Lake Wales’ Isaac Ramos won last week’s Tremendous 10 poll with 27.8 percent of the vote, followed by McKeel’s Evan Kniss (25 ...

Mark Anthony Williams, 47, died in a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon, the Auburndale Police Department reported.

Some lane closures are related to a project to convert an 18-mile section of the Polk Parkway to electronic toll collection.

EAGLE LAKE — Polk County girls hurdlers compete in the very large shadow cast by the George Jenkins’ hurdlers, especially the ...

Baseball teams will now have to win two out of three games in each of the three rounds of regionals to advance.

Haven head beach volleyball coach Dylan Sechrest and the squad's mindset is always to compete at the highest level, and ...

Bartow's red-light camera program goes live. Here's what to know, including which intersections and what the penalties are.

Renters in Polk County saw apartment listing prices decrease from February's average of $1,235, an analysis of new data from ...

The average fuel price in state slightly declined about 3 cents since last month. According to the EIA, gas prices across the ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Florida dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of ...

Jazi Riley, a Lakeland native, is a student at Manhattan University, where she is in her second year as student body ...