Polk County Commissioners have passed a resolution establishing vessel exclusion zones for designated swim areas in certain ...

Polk County commissioners approved no-boating zones in newly designated swimming areas in three lakes over safety concerns.

With 2024 all wrapped up, Florida officials have ... arrest warrants’ out of Orange County arrested in Polk County A 40-year-old Lake Hamilton man wanted in Orange County for “a half dozen ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reports deputies shot Timothy Shultz, who attacked them with shears after an alligator ...

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

Wilson is the Miami Herald’s Miami-Dade County Girls’ Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Mater Lakes senior Sydney Wilson sets up a ...

The proposal would leave existing homes in Lake Wales Country Club and Oakwood in unincorporated Polk County. In 2020 ... boats in the parking lot. All of the light fixtures are down in the ...

In a move to improve safety on local lakes, the Polk County Board of County Commissioners approved an ordinance repealing and ...

FLORIDA — Polk County on Friday issued ... 500 for seven consecutive days. Seminole County on Tuesday announced its burn ban, prohibiting all outdoor burning that has not been permitted by ...

The approved plan includes bike lanes on the main road and simple sidewalks. Residents have clamored for a separated 8- to 10-foot multiuse path.

Thunder, a Paso Fino, was rescued Sunday, June 1, when the Polk County Animal Cruelty Investigations Unit followed up on a tip about two horses looking malnourished at a Lake Wales farm, about a ...