A virtual public information meeting will be held April 21 at 6 p.m. An in-person open house will take place April 22 in ...

Joy Jackson has been the director of the Florida Department of Health in Polk County for nine and a half years. Aaron Kissler ...

Polk County ... Polk County. Also, Winter Haven is among the cities issuing their own burn ban. Citrus, Hernando, and Pasco counties also are under a burn restriction from the Florida Forest ...

Construction of “congestion relief lanes” on Interstate 4 in Polk County has finished ahead of schedule, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday. The project, adding one lane in each ...

A deputy was injured Sunday after being shot in the leg while trying to defend herself from a dog attack, the Polk County ...

Officers John Chandler and Tre McDonald were hurt after officials said they were inside their patrol vehicle when a suspect hit them at nearly 100 mph.

FROSTPROOF, Fla. (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 ...

A Florida man is in the Polk County Jail after turning himself in for a Friday road rage incident, PCSO said. Deputies say they were given dashcam footage of the incident, which left a semi-truck ...

Funding for local projects in Polk County has been delayed ... similar to Circle B Bar Reserve, a county-managed tract in Lakeland that ranks as one of Florida’s premier birdwatching sites.

The Polk County Board of Supervisors, whose salaries are nearly $150,000, elected not to take a pay raise this year. Other high-paid employees, including the county administrator and chief medical ...

CREWS ARE BATTLING FIVE DIFFERENT WILDFIRES. THREE OF THEM ARE IN POLK COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. MOST OF THE WILDFIRES ARE AT 0% CONTAINMENT. AND NEW TONIGHT, A MAJOR UPDATE ON THE WILDFIRES IN POLK ...

Wildfires in Polk County, North Carolina have burned over 4,700 acres and destroyed at least five homes. Debris and limited access points from Tropical Storm Helene are hindering firefighting efforts.