Dr. Daniel Haight of Lakeland Regional Health will be the keynote speaker at the Festival of Faith on Feb. 25 in Bartow.

Latino evangelical Christians in Florida and swaths of the Southeast worry about the sanctity of their sacred spaces, and the ...

For many faith leaders and congregants across Florida — particularly in churches with large Hispanic populations — the ...

Eight years ago, when Donald Trump first became president, a group of churches and synagogues across New Jersey vowed to offer sanctuary to immigrants who were seeking protection from deportation.

POLK COUNTY—In response to the challenges faced by local churches during the aftermath of Helene, a local woman helped to provide generators and other essential power supplies to several places of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Winter Haven. He is joined by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, Florida ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

which has worked on several other school projects in the past in Polk County. The BTS proposal was unsolicited and submitted under provisions from Section 255.065 of the Florida Statutes early in ...

Labour has been accused of introducing a “worship tax” by slashing funds to repair ancient churches and save them from closure. The Government announced on Wednesday that it would halve the ...

As a historic winter storm races across North Florida, Polk County should escape freezing temperatures and snowfall through Saturday. But it hasn't been this frigid in January in a decade.

(This story was changed to include newer images and video.) As a historic winter storm races across North Florida, Polk County should escape freezing temperatures and snowfall through Saturday.