Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the state's 2025-26 budget after vetoing almost $600 million in programs and projects from the ...

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.

R. Bruce Anderson writes a right-wing content creator's invasion of Lakeland's farmers market, and the LDDA's attempt to remove her, raise free speech questions.

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 ...

According to data from the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Lake Kissimmee had the second-highest number of alligators in 2024, with an estimated population of about 16,184.

Much remains unresolved: The threat to Israel is eased, not gone. Iran’s desperately ruinous, immoral and inhumane regime remains intact, though damaged. The future of Yemen, the Kurds, Iraq, ...

The budget includes $10 million for Polk State College's planned Haines City-Davenport campus and $6.1 million for its ...

Ed Vetter helped establish Polk's first International Baccalaureate program and led it to become one of Florida's ...