Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Dwayne Ocasio shoved a security guard and used a racial slur after he was asked to move a ...

The Polk Arts & Health Collaborative is modeled after the NeuroArts Blueprint, an initiative from Johns Hopkins University ...

To celebrate the end of the school year, Walt Disney World recently donated $500,000 to help fund education programs in ...

A large data center campus could be coming to Florida. The News Chief reports that the Fort Meade city commission voted 5-0 ...

A Polk County mom is fighting for her six-year-old son after Florida Medicaid ripped away his nursing services.

FloridaCommerce announced today that Polk State College is one of five colleges awarded a Florida Job Growth Grant to expand its advanced manufacturing and industrial trades training programs. The $2.

In East Polk, two protests are scheduled. On is at U.S. 27 and Home Run Boulevard in Davenport, across the highway from the ...

Last week lawmakers voted to expedite the construction of two express lanes on I-4’s busiest stretch in Osceola and Polk ...

One person was killed, and a deputy was severely injured, in a deputy-involved shooting on Friday in Polk County, officials ...

Polk County School Board member Rick Nolte, who last attended a meeting on Jan. 28, is on medical leave, the school district ...

A woman says Rebuild Florida demolished her home after Hurricane Irma with a promise to replace it. 8 years later, she still ...

There's an extremely rare plant that, in all of Florida, only grows in Polk County, but it's being threatened by a proposed ...