A plant that only is known to exist in Polk County, the Blushing Scrub Balm, is at risk due to proposed routes for a planned toll road, native plant enthusiasts say.

There's an extremely rare plant that, in all of Florida, only grows in Polk County, but it's being threatened by a proposed ...

After Sunday night’s severe weather, multiple areas in Marion County have been affected by downed trees and flash flooding.

The State of Florida Bureau of Fire, Arson and Explosives Investigators and Marion County Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating the cause and origin of the fire.

A fight over trees in a neighborhood near Windermere has some residents wondering what it will take to remove them.

There are concerns the new interchange and development will eat up existing farmlands, and bring more traffic to this rural part of Marion County. But Taub, who grew up about a mile away ...

Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight filtered from above.

And in the 1850s, soldiers held Native American prisoners there, awaiting boats bound for New Orleans and west of the Mississippi River. In 2017, the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation ...

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