Brown, a Democrat, is running for District 4 on the board, a seat held by outgoing veteran supervisor Tom Hockensmith.

A Lakeland man with 16 previous felonies is back behind bars after detectives linked him to a string of robberies involving ...

According to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, deputies were dispatched to a home on Avenue C in Waverly for a reported battery in progress. Investigators say Pittman showed up at the residence ...

The final contract means "everybody else in the school district is going to see 2%, whether they have a union or not,” the ...

Polk County has presented a budget that includes $2 million in cuts and a property tax levy reduction. What's in the proposal: ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office says a man, who was not wearing his seatbelt, died after his car rear-ended a semi near Lake Wales.

Polk County's juvenile detention center is holding kids longer, partly because of changes to state and federal law that now generally prohibit placing youth in adult jails — even when they're ...

Polk County Fire Rescue battled over 30 brush fires, with one burning 400 acres in River Ranch, but no evacuations or ...

More than 30 brush fires burned across Polk County on Feb. 15, according to Polk County Fire Rescue. The largest was in the ...

Polk County will not put an advisory vote about funding operations of the Polk County Fairgrounds and Event Center on the May ballot.