Polk County's three Republican U.S. House members voted against a maneuver to amend a bill and add a provision about releasing the Epstein files.

Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot and killed a man who charged deputies with garden shears and tried to grab a gun from a patrol vehicle, all after he was attacked by an ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, on Monday, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack.Polk County Sheriff’s ...

Polk County led the area in population growth between 2020 and 2024, a trend experts say will continue. (Courtesy of the Central Florida Regional Planning Council) (856x530, AR: 1.6150943396226416) ...

Former Polk County deputy Joshua Roelofs, charged with manslaughter after a 2022 crash that killed two and disabled another, has disappeared after failing to appear for his April trial.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed nearly $600 million from the state budget, impacting some Polk County projects. Haines City's emergency operations center, fire facility, and municipal annex ...