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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in his morning briefing on Monday a Port St. Lucie truck driver was arrested July 7 after ...

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

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

Alexander Katchalov, a 28-year-old registered sex offender, is now charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) announced today two dogs rescued from animal abuse are now ready to be fostered.

The alleged drug runners were seemingly part of two drug cartels, running the fentanyl through Phoenix, Arizona, Atlanta, Georgia, and then finally Polk County, Florida. Seventeen pounds of fentanyl ...