POLK COUNTY, Fla -- All Black History Month, we have been celebrating Black leaders in our communities. Today, we introduce you to Polk County Fire Rescue's new chief, Dr. Hezedean Smith.

Polk County lawmakers are seeking as much as $17.5 million for the planned Haines City-Davenport campus and $3 million for the renovation of the LAC Building on the Lakeland campus.

Six dogs in Polk County were found inside a 107-degree home that lacked power and was covered in trash, feces and urine, deputies said. Alan Alderman, 29, and Thornton Arnold, ...

Patriots' Ja'Lynn Polk: Limited in OTAs. Polk (shoulder) isn't participating in full team drills during the Patriots' current organized team activities, Evan Lazar of the team's official site ...

Florida Sheriff Grady Judd ready to support the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, but cites lack of detention capacity and calls for federal action.

Polk County deputies killed an apparently drug-addled man who swam through an alligator-infested lake, then charged the officers with garden shears, Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday.

Matthew Polk of Vanderbilt baseball is entering the transfer portal, he said in an Instagram post May 24.. Polk played for the Commodores from 2022-24, serving as a starter in the outfield in 2023 ...

Polk County is launching a program to help low-income seniors stay in their homes by providing free home repairs. Aimed at homeowners and renters ages 62 and older, the county's Aging in Place ...

Polk County Fire Rescue plans to open its new Moore Road Fire Station 25 on May 23 at 8525 Moore Road in Lakeland. The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. on Friday and includes speeches from ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — After Polk County School Board members decided to eliminate Polk Virtual School, some Polk County families say they’re left scrambling for options for next school year.

For his last trick, a Polk County inmate “done Houdini'd his way outta custody in two counties," according to the Polk County deputies searching for him.

Marcie Hysinger, 56, as part of People for Polk, a group of community advocates who want to save Polk Street from abandonment for the expansion of the George R Brown Convention Center, conducts a ...