Sarasota’s free Fresh Friday monthly event returns with “Back to the 80’s” this Friday, April 4th. Taking the stage is Scarlet Drive, a five-piece, female-fronted band that will play ...

The body of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared while swimming in Lake Roy in Winter Haven was found on Thursday. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said a man took his two sons and a nephew out on a boat to swim ...

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is conducting a prescribed burn this week in the Moore Haven Marsh, west of Lake Okeechobee that may impact residents in ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFLA) — A boy was found dead at a lake in Polk County Thursday afternooon. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office first reported the boy’s disappearance shortly before 3 p.m ...

More: Sarasota area waterfront restaurant closes after nearly 70 years, will be deeply missed The University Town Center location is L.L. Bean’s first in Florida and the southeast U.S., with ...

Two roads lead to the Florida Keys. A wildfire closed both of them Wednesday. Card Sound Road remained closed Thursday. Conditions could prompt more road closures. A red flag warning for critical ...

TALLAHASSEE — New College of Florida could take over the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus under plans being negotiated in the state Legislature, according to a top ...

Thirteen Florida attorneys and judges have applied for a vacancy on the state's 1st District Court of Appeal. The applicants are vying to take the place of Judge Brad Thomas, who retired as of Feb ...

An amendment to a Florida transportation bill proposes raising ... Fiona McFarland, R-Sarasota. Law enforcement and safety organizations have spoken against raising speed limits.

The population has kept growing in many of Florida’s metropolitan areas ... while Lakeland-Winter Haven was fourth at 3.5% and Port St. Lucie was seventh at 2.9%. The Census figures do not ...

And his latest strategy to escape it is imitation. In just under two months of the Republican administration arriving in the White House, the city of Tallahassee, the seat of the Florida state ...

Legoland Florida Resort in Winter Haven is unveiling 20 newly themed rooms at Legoland Hotel. The new rooms include the resort’s first Lego Duplo rooms, Legoland said in a news release.