The driest conditions continue across South and Southwest Florida. Wiggins Fire: Collier County. 250 acres. 95% contained. Pretty Pine Fire: Polk County ... No more flash flood warnings remain in ...

It took just three months for Samantha Fischetti to discover the hidden flood history of her new home. By 3 a.m. one ...

While county commissioners work toward limiting development, their options to do so could be limited by the state.

Escambia County ... maps of risk zones, and considerations for next steps, like hardening shorelines and properties against flooding and prioritizing projects. The Florida Department of ...

The hurricane swept through Florida, Georgia ... according to an interactive map by the North Carolina Forest Service. The fires are in Polk, Caldwell and Swain counties, according to the map.

With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his orange trees for a grove ...

Construction of “congestion relief lanes” on Interstate 4 in Polk County has finished ahead of schedule, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday. The project, adding one lane in each ...

AUBURNDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Polk County woman out on probation is back behind bars, but this time for allegedly running over her estranged husband’s new girlfriend. “I knew that they had ...

Judge Mary Catherine Green of the 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Polk County, Florida, will retire on July 31 after 26 years of service. Green, 63, is retiring early, citing a desire to move on to ...

Read full article: Volusia man scores $15M prize with scratch-off game Hubert Wilkerson, 64, of Summer Field, claimed a $1 million prize from the 500X THE CASH Scratch-Off game. Read full ...

(This story was revised to include new information.) Dr. Joy Jackson, the director of the Florida Department of Health in Polk County, will retire Thursday, and her interim replacement will be the ...