Conditions for Lake Wales worsened from Severe Drought (D2) to Extreme Drought (D3), according to this week's U.S. Drought ...

Richard Jackson Benson passed away on April 21, 2026, at Advent Health in Orlando, Florida. He was born on February 28, 1945, in Bellevue, Pennsylvania, to Theodore Edwin Benson and Marian Jackson ...

The building that once housed the BizLINC "business incubator" in Lake Wales is now subject to a court-ordered notrie of a ...

Webber International University has been awarded a $10,000 Impact Polk grant from the Leland Bryan Fund within GiveWell ...

Utility work is slated to begin next week on Orange and Crystal Avenues and the adjoining portions of Market Street, ...

Polk State College began the search for its sixth president on Monday. At the first meeting of the Polk State College ...

A fire at Crooked Lake Prairie may generate smoke over the Babson Park and South Lake Wales area today, but the public should ...

Polk County has temporarily suspended the county-wide burn ban, which went into effect on Nov. 25, 2025. The burn ban ...

This story has been updated to reflect county commission action to end the burn ban. Polk County has ended the county-wide ...