Within a 10-mile radius of the site, there are approximately 80,000 residents with a high school diploma or some college but ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - In a major crackdown on gang violence, the Polk County Sheriff's Office arrested 19 gang members linked ...

A team from UF’s Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment believe the system can serve as a model for ...

Sand bags and monitoring by school district and emergency management continues as tropical storm watch issued for much of ...

Lakeland Electric had a couple of large clusters of about 200 and 100 customers still without power early Friday. Duke had ...

Polk County Sheriff's Office needs your help locating 19-year-old Latarius Matthews Jr., also known as "PJ," who resides in ...

Just how much rain can Polk County expect? And when will conditions deteriorate? The county's under a tornado watch Thursday.

As Tropical Storm Helene, the eighth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, makes its way towards Florida, here ...

Since the start of the 2024-2025 school year in Polk County, 24 students have been arrested for written or online threats, ...

If you ever tire of the monotonous flatness of peninsular Florida, just drive through Polk County. The landscape there is dotted by massive mountains of phosphate waste, the result of companies mining ...

The tentative Polk County budget for 2024-25 is expected to pass Monday after a final public hearing. Here's why many will be ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of a woman after a two-vehicle crash in Polk County on Wednesday.