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

Data from the 2025 point-in-time count shows approximately 779 people experiencing homelessness on a single January night in Polk County.

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

BARTOW, Fla. - A 51-year-old Bartow man, Nathan Cagle, found his pleas for leniency ignored on Thursday evening as Polk ...

Polk County Public Schools announced new principals at three high schools, 14 elementary schools, a traditional middle school ...

Firefighters battling a section of the Rowena Fire showed that it’s not just people who may need help as the fire continues ...

The suspect seriously injured a deputy, leading to a deadly officer-involved incident in Polk County on Friday.

Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

A Polk County deputy is recovering and a man is dead after deputies shot him in Frostproof. Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies ...

The Polk County Intensive Supervision Drug Court program has been around since the late 1990s. It helps people who once ...

Polk County supervisors approved a program that will pay cash to employees who come up with ways to save money within the ...

Authorities in Polk County have now caught the man they say fled the scene of a burglary in Sullivan Township early Friday ...