The main event of Polk Pride is Pride in the Park, scheduled for June 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Munn Park in downtown ...

Polk County Sheriff (PCSO) investigates deputy-involved shooting after drug trafficking suspect fled from arrest, crashed into deputies and bystanders.

Publix Super Markets Inc. is planning another store on its home turf of Polk County. Big deals. High stakes. Handsome reward.

Sheriff Grady Judd highlights the bottleneck in Trump's immigration crackdown due to limited ICE resources and calls for ...

Rapid growth in Florida's Heartland weighs heavily on aging infrastructure. Paving new roads harms already imperiled ...

HAVEN, Fla. - A Massachusetts man was arrested Monday night after a Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deputy clocked him driving a white Ford F-150 at an alarming speed of 104 mph in a 50 mph zone ...

Polk County Fire Rescue responded to a fatal recreational vehicle fire Saturday on Combee Road in Lakeland. Sign up for our ...

Timothy Schulz, a 42-year-old man in Florida with a history of meth-related arrests, was fatally shot by the police after ...

A Florida thief wanted in multiple counties has been arrested after deputies say they caught him with $470 in stolen steaks.

Florida sheriff's deputies opened fire on Timothy Schulz when he went for the weapons inside their patrol vehicle, a sheriff ...

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

The fact that he was bitten by an alligator, significantly, and still continued his rampage, is shocking,” Polk County ...