Growth in the Heartland. If central Florida is the state’s heartland, Polk County is its pacemaker. It’s the fastest-growing county in the state, bridging Tampa and Orlando with an ever ...

ORANGE CITY, Fla. — There is no time to be monkeying around because there are wild monkeys roaming around Central Florida. The Orange City Police Department issued a warning on their Facebook ...

The Central Florida Expressway Authority bought land protected under an easement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Osceola County for a toll road project last May.

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, a unit of FDOT, resumed the project last May, launching an alternative corridor study for the 28-mile eastern segment known as Central Polk Parkway East.