Members of Polk's transportation planning board seemed to want to speed up the process for the eastern toll road, but also to ...

David Price, president of Bok Tower Gardens, said two of the proposed highway routes could come within about 2,600 feet of ...

Melanie E. Davis is accused of breaking into a man's Florida home and attacking him with a garden hoe after he canceled their ...

The morning commute is starting with multiple crashes slowing traffic on the interstates in Des Moines on Thursday morning.

state says Polk County ranks in the second of four tiers for immunization levels established by the Florida Department of Health. Eighteen counties are labeled in red on a map on the agency’s ...

USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at “relatively high” risk.

It’s no surprise that Florida is a strange place. But some places in the Sunshine State are weirder than others.

ROCHESTER – Mayo Clinic data scientists are urginzg Minnesotans to consult the Mayo coronavirus map tracking tool when making plans for holiday travel. The website is a public-facing web ...

Florida Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, announced Monday that he had named both Judd and Pinellas County Sheriff ...

United Way of Central Florida has partnered with the IRS to offer several free tax prep sites across Polk County.

Polk County supervisors have approved $500,000 in emergency funding to help 478 refugees resettle in the Des Moines metro, plugging a gap created by President Donald Trump's January halt of ...

Prosecutor Mark Levine declined to comment. “Our detectives firmly believe that Collin Griffith murdered his mother,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd wrote in a statement. “The jury ...