The Polk State College Foundation has received $35,278 for scholarship programs from the Florida College System Foundation. The funds will support three scholarship programs: Nursing and Allied ...

Polk State College's foundation transferred nearly $51,000 to the college to cover student fees, the chair said at an Aug. 15 meeting. A foundation board member requested further accounting of the ...

Mark Thielen retired as conductor and music director of the Lakeland Symphony Orchestra after 24 years. The LSO will utilize guest conductors for the 2025-2026 season. The orchestra, formerly known as ...

The majority of Polk County's football teams will have new starting quarterbacks, but one of the advantages most quarterbacks will have is a talented, deep receiving corps that exists in the county ...

When Alexander Rich left last month to take the job as head of Charleston’s Gibbes Museum of Art, Florida Southern President Jeremy Martin launched a search for his replacement and in the meantime ...

Polk County Public Schools is redrawing attendance boundaries for its 16 high schools for the first time in decades. The district plans to hold a series of public meetings to gather community input.

After spring practice, players still had workouts all summer with their respective high school football teams, going to camps, hitting the weight room and participating in 7-on-7 competitions or ...

Three students from Florida Polytechnic University designed a tool for securing fabric-like material in space. The tool, tested at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center, passed a 16-pound ...

Citrus Connection will extend Lakeland's downtown microtransit service hours to 2 a.m. on weekends starting August 22nd. The decision addresses transportation needs for Florida Southern College ...

A male suspect was taken into custody on Sunday after multiple people were set on fire during an event calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza at a pedestrian mall in Boulder, Colorado, ...

Great white shark circles Florida fishing boat off Destin about 20 minutes. The shark was estimated to be about 14 feet long and weighing more than 1,000 pounds. White sharks, along with several other ...

Nashville-based Bridgestone Americas plans to shutter its tire plant located in La Vergne, Tennessee, later this year, which will leave 700 workers based in Rutherford County without jobs. The U.S.