Gov. DeSantis announced awards totaling more than $86 million to Dundee, Frostproof and the Peace River Watershed Project in ...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies now ask everyone they encounter for place of birth, not only those arrested, as had been the ...

The Commission on Ethics ruled that the ban on lobbying by public officials applied to part of Kate Wallace's duties for ...

Essie Ward was found unresponsive in her cell at 9:30 a.m. on April 3. But an autopsy found that she had been dead for 18-24 ...

Think of it like a giant pool lanai. Or screen porch. Or mesh strainer. Or better yet, see the revolutionary citrus-growing ...

The Florida DEP announced plans to add 74 acres to Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park in eastern Polk ...

Polk County’s children are doing slightly worse compared to the rest of Florida, according to an annual report from the Florida Policy Institute. The Child Well-Being Index draws upon data from Kids ...

Paramedic John Parris, injured in a Polk County Fire Rescue ambulance crash, received applause as he left the hospital.

Teachers excoriate Polk Commission for delaying their statutorily-required task of placing the tax referendum on the ballot ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — More than 60 people have been arrested after a three-year investigation into fentanyl traffic, authorities said Friday. The effort started in 2021 and involved the Polk County ...

Jason Penrod, a former Polk County lawyer accused of diverting nearly $1.8 million from a client, pled guilty to grand theft ...