Lake Wales City Manager James Slaton said he hopes to reach a deal with a company to redevelop the historic Walesbilt Hotel ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

The YMCA is returning to Lake Wales to address a perceived lack of early childhood programs. YMCA of West Central Florida and Polk County Public Schools are collaborating to provide Voluntary ...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies told our sister WFTV-TV in Orlando that they received a call at 4:05 p.m. to assist the Florida Fish and ... It happened at Lake Kissimmee State Park.

Then, in the 2000s, came designer-builder Blake Simpson, who spent nearly 10 years reinventing the place as the Mojave Sands ... The hotel’s owners also have revived a small neighboring lake ...

(CBS12) — Deputies uncovered nearly 57,000 potentially fatal doses of Fentanyl, nearly two pounds of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and illegal firearms after raiding a Jacksonville motel.

Investigators found the victim, Elijah Daley, of Lake Placid, dead at the Ramada Inn shortly after 5 a.m. on Thursday, May 8. Three people who were at the motel at the time claimed to be witnesses ...

A motorcyclist was killed the night of April 29 when he collided with a pickup that was entering the road near Lake Wales, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. The crash happened about 9 ...

A woman was attacked and killed by an alligator while kayaking on a lake in central Florida on Tuesday, authorities said. The incident happened around 4 p.m. on Lake Kissimmee at Lake Kissimmee ...

About 6,000 to 10,000 revelers gather in their boats on a lake in Florida for the boozy Boca Bash on the last Sunday of April each year. The party is an annual celebration on Lake Boca Raton ...