Business owners and entrepreneurs in Highlands, Hardee and DeSoto counties will be able to receive comprehensive training to help them run their businesses as a result of a $100,000 grant awarded to Heartland Workforce. ...more

November 15, 2009

Church Service Center in Avon Park is now feeding 700 families a month - 25 percent more than last year. ...more

November 15, 2009

People are hurting bad out there, and if you doubt that, go talk to anyone running a food pantry around Highlands County. Tough times have left households in ruins, people living in their cars and desperately needing food. It's painful to see so many people in serious need. ...more

November 15, 2009

Police executed a search warrant at a Fifth Street home early Thursday morning and say they found a woman sitting fully clothed on a just-flushed toilet before charging her with drug and weapons counts. ...more

November 14, 2009

The following people were booked Thursday, Nov. 12 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

November 14, 2009

Railroad Street will be closed between Bowman Avenue and Center Avenue starting at 8 a.m. from Nov. 13-18, due to installation of underground utilities by KDL Underground, Inc., per jack and bore under the CSX railroad tracks at Center Avenue, for the construction of the Sebring Parkway Phase II project. ...more

November 13, 2009

Highlands County's unemployment rate in September was 11.6 percent, up significantly from the 8.4 percent in September 2008. ...more

November 13, 2009

The fight continues to put a training facility for first responders and soldiers in Venus. ...more

November 13, 2009

The following people were booked Tuesday, Nov. 10 through Wednesday, Nov. 11 into the Highlands County Jail: ...more

November 13, 2009

I recently put a letter in Highlands Today requesting some help for a project that would put people to work. Let me tell you the response I got. I sent a letter to Governor Crist asking for his support. To my surprise the phone rang at work. It was one of his aides that called me and said if I needed any help to call him. Someone else also called to volunteer their time for writing grants. So that's two good things we got. ...more

November 13, 2009