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LEE COUNTY, Ala. (WTVM) - A sinkhole that has been growing for over two years in Lee County is starting to impact the lives of local residents. The hole has already forced one family to move into ...

Officials enacted the ban on Tuesday (April 15) after the county's drought scale, the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), exceeded the maximum levels.

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 ...

The sinkhole opened after the Montgomery County Highway Department pumped millions of gallons of storm water into the Farmington Basin. The Nelsons say they only found this out after county officials ...

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 ...

Polk County ... Polk County. Also, Winter Haven is among the cities issuing their own burn ban. Citrus, Hernando, and Pasco counties also are under a burn restriction from the Florida Forest ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health in Polk County (DOH-Polk) issued an alert today, April 21, 2025, ...

With three fires in Polk and Henderson counties burning on public and private land, the N.C. Forest Service and county emergency management departments have released a map indicating the size and ...

Meyer was one of the most respected basketball coaches in Polk County during his 30 years. A 1975 Florida Southern grad, he started the basketball programs at Lake Gibson and George Jenkins and ...

A cold front is moving through Florida today, April 11 ... fire danger," the National Weather Service said. On Thursday, Polk County averaged 428 on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index.