Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

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Philip Bedient, a professor who studies flood models at Rice University, brought us to one of the county’s most recent undertakings, an enormous, man-made concrete canal full of water. It was recently ...

Several South Florida organizations teamed up to help families across the state prepare for storm season.Vehicles rolled through the Youth<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

On Capitol Hill, attention turns to the Senate as it takes up a megabill to fund Trump's agenda.

Every storm has a story, and many more have yet to be written. From each hurricane’s beginning, thousands of miles across the Atlantic, to their dramatic end on ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is calling for every Louisianan to have a plan for hurricane season -- but it's not at all clear that the ...

As the 2025 hurricane season begins in the Atlantic Ocean, a new regional logistics hub built in collaboration between The ...