With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his orange trees for a grove ...

Judge Mary Catherine Green of the 10th Judicial Circuit Court in Polk County, Florida, will retire on July 31 after 26 years of service. Green, 63, is retiring early, citing a desire to move on to ...

One person is dead and two others are in the hospital with serious injuries from a Tuesday morning crash in Polk County, Wisconsin. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, at 10:40 a.m ...

Wildfires in Polk County, North Carolina have burned over 4,700 acres and destroyed at least five homes. Debris and limited access points from Tropical Storm Helene are hindering firefighting efforts.

FORECAST. OKAY. AND WE’LL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU IN JUST A BIT. WELL, THE POLK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IS WORKING TO SOLVE YEARS LONG STAFFING ISSUES AT THE POLK COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER’S ...

The City of Bartow and Polk County leaders have come up with a plan to build and share a new fire station. “When you have growth, you have traffic, and that creates delays. We want to be at the ...

An Albany man was sentenced on April 1 to 2⅟₂ years in prison for assaulting multiple corrections deputies in the Polk County Jail. Ivan Rosalio Mendez-Perez, 31, was indicted on March 21 ...

Polk County’s Commissioners voted Wednesday morning to grant a solid waste franchise to a company that has proposed building the facility at the former Rickreall Dairy. The county commissioners ...

The Polk County Sports Hall of Fame will expand by five as the Hall of Fame Class of 2025 has been announced and will include three former coaches, one of whom also was an elite athlete in Polk ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd confirmed the arrest of one of his own deputies who was on the job for less than a year. Grady said Jake Germak, 21, who was a trainee and deputy, was arrested after ...

As the dry season continues across the Bay area, more counties are issuing burn bans. Polk County is the latest to issue a ban, issuing it on Tuesday. The ban includes unincorporated Polk County.