The program helps homeowners pay for elevating homes or applying other changes to mitigate risk, even in some cases ...

Florida supervisors of elections are offering offering $1,200 scholarships to college students, according to Polk Supervisor ...

Timothy Coon was Polk County's first Black judge, a retired Air Force Reserve officer, an avid golfer, a married man of 48 ...

A Florida driver fast asleep beside a store’s gas pumps turned violent when awakened and bit a deputy’s K-9 partner on the ...

Two men who were sleeping in a car in Polk County were arrested after one of them attacked a deputy and bit their police dog.

Eight dogs and three pigs were seized from a house in Frostproof, living in filth without food or water.Polk County ...

Drivers will start seeing heavy equipment and an increased number of crews along I-4 east of U.S. 27, the Florida Department ...

A Florida sheriff says federal immigration authorities need to remove the "shackles" from local law enforcement agencies so they can assist in deporting criminal illegal migrants.

The Polk Education Association president is urging the Polk County School Board to consider a property tax referendum to ...

Collin Griffith will not spend time in prison after deputies accused him of murdering his mother a year after he shot his ...

A Polk County jury is deliberating the fate of a 17-year-old boy who is accused of stabbing his mother to death. A year ...

The increased fee only applies to volunteers whose activities involve contact with students out of sight of a district staff ...