POLK COUNTY, Fla. \- 39-year-old John Batista of Poinciana apparently missed the memo about keeping calm and carrying on.

Polk County, Florida, law enforcement and school administrators are working together to hold students who make threats to ...

Seems a trip to the Sunshine State turned a bit sour for a father-son duo from Tennessee last week. Franklin Smith II, the 42 ...

Polk County commissioners voted 3-2 to support a resolution from a conservative group alleging potential fraud in Florida's ...

Polk Countians may only know it from trips up north. The restaurant, famous for its Carolina-style chicken, is opening a ...

Polk County Public Schools has seen an alarming increase in students making online threats to either bomb or shoot up a school. In the first 28 days of school there have been 24 students arrested.

Micah and Diam were on their way to the hospital around 7 a.m. on Saturday so Diam could give birth to their child, however, ...

Rapid, unplanned development leaves county short of utility capacity, contemplating big increases in impact fees and an ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A multi-agency task force action helped arrest ... Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone obtained the most ...

Polk County to sell landfill gas to trash haulers, opens leachate treatment facility but ends curbside recycling.

A man has been deemed incompetent to proceed after allegedly shooting and killing a man in a Polk County barn in June 2023. Online court documents show Shane Ellzey appeared in ...

The Eastern Florida State College women's volleyball team picked up a Citrus Conference victory Wednesday in the home opener.