Eight counties in Florida are under 'extreme' drought conditions as more dry and warm weather is on the way while coastal ...

A woman was killed and two others were hurt in a wrong-way crash on US-27 in Groveland. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash happened just before 10 p.m. on Wednesday night on US-27 at ...

Sumter County has prohibited all outdoor burning and fireworks because of ongoing drought conditions and increased wildfire ...

County officials also encourage all residents to review their emergency management information at ...

Sumter County’s Public Works Department has received the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s (NAPA) 2025 Quality in Construction Award.

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. — Nine months after a ransomware attack took the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office completely offline, 9 Investigates is getting an inside look at the hit the agency took.

As of Tuesday, April 29, there were 101 wildfires burning across Florida, burning 3,556 acres. Twenty-two counties have ...

SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office announced a third arrest has been made in connection with a deadly shooting in 2022. Dy-Shirr Misiel Morgan, 27, was arrested on ...

Interim U.S. Attorney Brook Andrews, left, announces indictments in a money laundering operation based in Sumter County on Thursday, April 24, 2025. Kate Robins Three men have been indicted for ...

Three men have been indicted for running a $30 million money laundering operation using drug proceeds from Sumter County and other South Carolina communities, interim U.S. Attorney Brook Andrews ...

Rusell Farwick spoke to WPTV Reporter Tyler Hatfield at a WPTV Let's Hear It Event in Stuart after seeing our story on Old Palm City redevelopment. He shared that on Mapp Road in Palm City, parallel ...