Orlando Health will hold a hiring event Aug. 23 at the Auburndale Community Center for the Lakeland Highlands hospital now under construction.

Frostproof got off to a fast start to the season. While other teams were playing in their kickoff classics last week, the Bulldogs opened their regular season with a 34-point victory over Clewiston.

As Polk County’s high school football teams went through preseason practice, The Ledger spotlighted the top senior prospects, ...

Will there be a billion-dollar jackpot in summer 2025? Powerball drawings are at 11 pm ET every Monday, Wednesday and ...

The Space Force's 'classified' space plane will launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center with a new sensor to test GPS ...

Lakeland candidate Don Burns has withdrawn his candidacy for Lakeland's District B Northeast seat this November.

Commissioner Sara Roberts McCarley, who currently holds the seat, announced her campaign as a mayoral candidate in March. This leaves the District C seat open along with a full four-year term.

As Hurricane Erin swirls around Florida, NASA is asking the public to submit their hurricane-related photos to help improve ...

Rick Nolte, who died at age 69, was in his first term on the Polk County School Board after ousting incumbent Sarah Fortney ...

The Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, including Florida.

The Constitution says very little about how members of the House of Representatives must be chosen. Abusing single-member districts may change that.

Bartow agrees to spend of $2.1 million for body cams for its police just months after traffic stop and K-9 search of local ...