The Polk County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) and Bartow Police are investigating a shooting that injured a deputy and an officer.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Polk County Sheriff's Deputy Ed Alexander and Bartow Police Officer Mark Sills, who were shot in the line ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced the arrest of five individuals, all identified as Venezuelan ...

Construction of “congestion relief lanes” on Interstate 4 in Polk County has finished eight months ahead of schedule, Florida ...

Polk County's average drought index reading surpassed 500 on Tuesday, indicating an elevated chance of wildfires.

Officials enacted the ban on Tuesday (April 15) after the county's drought scale, the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), ...

A virtual public information meeting will be held April 21 at 6 p.m. An in-person open house will take place April 22 in ...

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, at 10:40 a.m., the emergency call center took a call for a two-vehicle crash ...

The continuing resolution passed in March did not include $12 million sought by Rep. Scott Franklin, D-Lakeland, for Polk ...

UPDATE: The Polk County Sheriff's Office has identified the person killed in a car crash Tuesday. 18-year-old Marley John ...

TheTennessee National Guard has been called in to help with a wildfire in Polk County.At the request of the Tennessee ...

The Tennessee Army National Guard provided two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from Knoxville’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter ...