While many homes sit gutted or vacant because of insurance and funding delays, people who live on Lake Bonny are urging all leaders to work together to prevent another disaster.

It's taken months for answers from insurers and FEMA as they try to rebuild after Hurricane Milton, and for many, those ...

Polk County deputies handed out thousands of citations to drivers who were reportedly caught speeding past stopped school buses.

Polk County, Florida, between Tampa and Orlando ... It’s also highly flammable and increasingly surrounded by development.

Over the past five years, hundreds of people in Polk County, Minnesota, have been charged with possessing drugs in “drug-free zones” despite not setting foot on those properties. They include two ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

While we were merrily distracted, tens of thousands of Florida ... maps on Dec. 20, and unsuspecting residents learned that they may now be required to buy flood insurance. In Palm Beach County ...

This is likely to bring about significant changes in the scope and extent of the County as a Lead Local Flood Authority. The revised Local Flood Risk Management Strategy is intended to be initiated in ...

Under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, County Councils and Unitary Authorities are designated as Lead Local Flood Authorities. The County Council is the strategic leader for flood risk ...

Several local and state officials, including Governor Ron DeSantis and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, talked about Florida's latest efforts to fight ... drivers across the Tampa Bay area: more school ...

Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains in the state’s bottom 10. The Florida Department of Education this ...