For more than a decade, the state and county have coveted a high-speed alternative to U.S. 27. Two public meetings are scheduled to discuss a route.

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide ...

400 early Saturday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. One man is dead and another was hospitalized with serious injuries after a head-on collision on SR-60 in Winter Haven on Saturday, ...

Man arrested for traveling to Polk County to meet 14-year-old for sex: PCSO ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Winter Haven. He is joined by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, Florida ...

state says Polk County ranks in the second of four tiers for immunization levels established by the Florida Department of Health. Eighteen counties are labeled in red on a map on the agency’s ...

A few strong thunderstorms along the Panhandle and Big Bend are possible and may bring lightning, gusty winds of 40 to 50 mph ...

A map on the Turnpike Enterprise ... which now stretches from I-4 near the Polk-Hillsborough County line to I-4 just east of Florida Polytechnic University, opened in 1998.

LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College is proud to announce that Polk County's 2024 Teacher of the Year, Cynara Appling, has been awarded a full scholarship to ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA)— A West Palm Beach man was arrested in Polk County after traveling to meet a minor to engage in sexual activity, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced.

According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, 22-year-old Emerick Priddy met the victim on Snapchat and convinced her to sneak out of her home in the middle of the night to meet him. Deputies say ...