Highlands County News

Law enforcement authorities are saying an organized crime ring may be responsible for a spike in vehicle burglaries and the use of stolen credit cards at various businesses in southeast Polk County and in ...

A Flood Advisory has been issued for Central Highlands County until 6:15 pm. This means that areas such as Sebring and Lake Placid may experience some flooding in low lying areas and intersections due to heavy ...

Storms developing in the Gulf and moving inland through evening. Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms.

PALMDALE -- Listen up, Henry David Thoreau. Walden Pond's got nothing on Fisheating Creek.

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Forecasters say Central Florida is in for more afternoon showers today. Storms are over Polk and Highlands counties now and will soon cross the Kissimmee River and move into west Osceola County, according to ...

RUSKIN FL 400 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2008 * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN HIGHLANDS COUNTY IN FLORIDA.

Dr. David Steffen Maehr, 52, professor of wildlife and conservation biology at the University of Kentucky and an expert on the endangered Florida panther, died June 20 in a plane crash in Lake Placid in central ...

An Okeechobee man who set fire to a Highlands County restaurant got caught up in the blaze and was taken to Tampa General Hospital, according to the state fire marshal's office.

" A pilot and passenger are dead after a fixed-wing single-engine airplane crashed near Placid Lakes Airport about 1:15 p.m. today, said Capt.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to schedule public meetings in September to get comments for the first-ever comprehensive conservation plan for the Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge.

A University of Kentucky professor and a pilot were killed in a small plane crash in Central Florida, officials said.

Two people have been killed in a small plane crash in Highlands County. A single engine Piper plane crashed in Lake Placid, just near the airport in Sebring.

It was a trip the James family made year after year. The Cape Coral family loved to spend a week in Lake Placid, according to Michael James, 32.

Two Highlands County employees were treated in what appeared to be an Africanized bee attack Monday afternoon, multiple county officials said.

Three UCF professors are conducting an experiment, discovering how to conserve Florida's wetlands and its inhabiting cattle.

Published: Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 7:36 a.m. WINTER HAVEN Change is coming for East Polk patients whose mental disorders are disabling enough to get them ...

Two men are behind bars for a murder that happened more than 7 years ago. Deputies say cold cases can be tough to crack.

Someone knifed nearly every tire on nearly every vehicle on the lot Friday night at Rufus Brown Motors.

The Florida Lottery announced today that four players matched all five winning numbers in Monday's Fantasy 5 drawing and will share a $215,374.64 top prize.