They will not exactly be rolling out the red carpet, but economic development officials in the region want to make a good impression for a group of Enterprise Florida project managers who will be visiting this week. ...more

March 21, 2010

Migrant workers who picked citrus in Polk County three years ago have settled a class-action lawsuit alleging they were not paid minimum wage or reimbursed for their costs to travel from Mexico to Florida, as is required by federal law. ...more

January 16, 2010

Migrant workers who picked citrus in Polk County three years ago have settled a class action lawsuit alleging they were not paid minimum wage or reimbursed for their costs to travel from Mexico to Florida, as is required by federal law. ...more

January 12, 2010

Roads were closed for five hours Thursday in Hendry County as hazmat crews cleaned up manganese nitrate and iron nitrate that fell from a Lake Placid truck driver's rig. ...more

August 28, 2009

SEBRING Highlands County residents parking their cars or mowing on dry, high grass are inadvertently causing wildfires, which have been higher than usual for this time of the year. ...more

March 3, 2009

Dennis Mann wants to put a theater somewhere in Lake Placid, but he is not sure it will be on the site being considered. ...more

February 24, 2009

The Christmas shopping season often can put a colorful coating on an otherwise rotten economy. ...more

January 24, 2009

When ambulance crews rolled up on the aftermath of a violent car wreck nearly three years ago, they found taxi driver John Kelly dead, his body partially ejected from his cab. ...more

January 15, 2009

When ambulance crews rolled up on the aftermath of a violent car wreck nearly three years ago, they found taxi driver John Kelly dead, his body partially ejected from his cab. ...more

January 14, 2009

SEBRING Like most areas of the state and the country, Highlands County saw its unemployment rate rise substantially in 2008. ...more

December 31, 2008