FloridaCommerce announced today that Polk State College is one of five colleges awarded a Florida Job Growth Grant to expand its advanced manufacturing and industrial trades training programs. The $2.

In 2021, he joined a Black fathers’ support group and met a few other dads eager to discuss their unique challenges. They started their own podcast in 2023 called AutisHIM, a place where Black dads ...

Lakeland will soon have twice as many traffic enforcement cameras, forcing drivers to slow down or pay up. The City Commission voted unanimously today to expand its contract with Arizona-based ...

Isaiah Deyant became the first Haines City track athlete to medal twice at the state meet in a quarter of a century.

That’s why we’re standing together to fight for better learning and working conditions. Advocating for our students is at the ...

The protest June 14 in Lakeland's Munn Park was part of a coordinated national protest timed to Trump's 79th birthday and a ...

Polk County School Board member Rick Nolte, who last attended a meeting on Jan. 28, is on medical leave, the school district ...

A former Ankeny middle school teacher and softball coach will spend the next 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to four ...

Daryl Ward, executive director of the Polk Arts & Cultural Alliance, will serve as interim leader of the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art.

Polk County's behavioral health team has launched a website to help those seeking mental health and substance use disorder ...

Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of ...