It happened Thursday afternoon at Lake Roy in Winter Haven. According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, 12-year-old Noah ...

The fee of $84 an hour paid to the Polk County Sheriff's Office covers the salary of a deputy, plus benefits, capital and ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could mark the beginning of the end for the U.S. Department of ...

A medical emergency caused a serious collision on State Road 557 (SR-557) in Polk County on Tuesday afternoon, according to ...

Multiple agencies are searching for a child who disappeared while swimming in a Winter Haven lake, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. Deputies explained that the child was swimming in Lake ...

An allegedly drunk driver was arrested Monday night after he was accused to ramming his Jaguar into a retired sheriff’s ...

A community town hall with the Florida Policy Institute shined a light on how they say proposed federal cuts to health care ...

More than 400 college baseball teams, consisting of 15,000 players from 30 different states, meet up in Polk County every spring for RussMatt Baseball.

The contract, previously approved by the union, includes a 1.5% wage increase and 4.1% step increase, plus the first sick ...

As leaders in the Florida House and Senate, Rep. Josie Tomkow, R-Polk City, and Sen. Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, have so far ...

Polk tax collector to replace floor in historic art-deco Lakeland location. Urges residents to visit other locations or online portals to renew docs.

Those catastrophes contributed to a 90% decline in orange production over the past two decades. Citrus groves in Florida, ...