For this fiscal year, only applicants scoring 95 or higher can expect to receive their full requests for Florida's arts and ...

Polk County commissioners vote to decrease the setback for chicken coops, but a new state law prohibits their desired ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will join Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and other officials to discuss the arrests of eight people in a multimillion-dollar fraud case.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will be speaking alongside Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at 10:30 a.m. Investigators ...

Tampa Electric has tapped Morgan Odum as its new Regional Affairs Manager for Polk County, where she’ll help lead local ...

Legislative disbursement changes have diverted $45.7 million from the district, and Trump's freeze on education funds puts ...

One person was killed early Friday morning after being involved in a head-on crash with a dump truck in Lake Alfred, ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) said deputies are on the scene of a fatal car crash at Powerline Road and Snell Creek Road.

Another local school district is sounding the alarm about a current federal funding freeze that’s keeping almost $400 million ...

A now former employee of a cannabis dispensary in Lake Wales was arrested after police say he stole more than 21 pounds of ...

Officials say they will need more detention space to hold all the new detainees, but they're still being stymied by the feds.

A Lakeland detective has been arrested by the Polk County Sheriff's Office and accused of falsely reporting a crime involving ...