Officials enacted the ban on Tuesday (April 15) after the county's drought scale, the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), ...

With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing ...

Polk County ... the disease or treat the trees. Those catastrophes contributed to a 90% decline in orange production over the past two decades. Citrus groves in Florida, which covered more ...

If there's one agricultural staple Florida is known for, it’s oranges. Polk County, Florida ... tree that can kill the tiny insects responsible for citrus greening. However, those trees are still at ...

Polk County is about 85 miles from Charlotte. USA TODAY reached out to Cannon for updated information. According to the North Carolina Forest Service, a statewide burn ban was placed in effect ...

The North Carolina Forest Service has issued a statewide burn ban while three substantial, uncontained wildfires prompt mandatory evacuations in Polk County — the flames engulfing three homes.

(WFLA) — With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his orange trees ...