The roughly $115 billion budget was $3.5 billion less than the current year. DeSantis’ action shrinks the plan even further, ...

Committed to Liberty since March, All-First Coast running back Arthur Lewis IV instead plans to play for the UCF Knights.

Polk County Property Appraiser Neil Combee raised concerns about the financial impact of Florida's Live Local Act on property tax revenues. The Live Local Act provides tax breaks to developers ...

Miss Florida, who just earned her master's in health administration, was a former cheerleader at this major state program.

Four of Polk State College's six trustees rated President Angela Garcia Falconetti as achieving expectations in every measure ...

The average fuel price in state rose about 7 cents since last month. According to the EIA, gas prices across the state in the ...

Florida law permits firework use on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and the Fourth of July. Fireworks can be purchased at ...

The denial of racism in the United States, its origins, its effects, its destructive power, are being washed out of our history books. As we progressed from the civil rights movement to today, we ...

The deputy was praised in February for making more than 200 DUI arrests last year. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said all of his ...

The former city clerk, Erica Anderson, had alleged a pattern of discrimination and retaliation in a whistleblower lawsuit.

Overall Polk County students improved in two-thirds of the categories, but fell in others. See how your school did.

In Middle East, 'America First' ideal runs head-first into itself | R. Bruce Anderson Tucked inside the Big Beautiful Bill, a peril for state college students | Anderson Free speech or disruptive ...