Kate Wallace officially joined the Polk County School Board at the Nov. 18 meeting. Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed her on Nov. 7 ...

Leosbey Cuesta de Armas, 31, who was arrested Nov. 9 in Polk County, faces one count of second-degree murder and one count of ...

LAKELAND, Fla. – A deputy-involved shooting broke out in Lakeland on Wednesday, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office ...

Without the funds, Creative Vision's Violence Intervention Program was facing "potential dissolution," a release from the ...

The state's first indoor U-Pick orange grove opens in Polk County this week. FOX 35's David Martin visited Golden Ridge Groves for a preview.

For what’s believed to be the first time in Florida, customers can enter a citrus growing structure designed to prevent greening, the disease that has ravaged citrus trees in Florida for two decades.

BayCare hospitals received A's while Lakeland Regional scored an overall C in newly released Leapfrog rankings.

Trapping for Mediterranean oak borer (MOB) this summer showed this new pest from Europe, North Africa and western Asia is now ...

Sheriff Grady Judd said the man had beaten another man with a brick and charged deputies with the same brick after they ...

No deputies have been injured, and authorities say the suspect involved has been transported by Polk Fire Rescue.