It has likely been decades since Polk County revised high school attendance boundaries districtwide. Here's how the process ...

Republican candidates, three of them incumbents, easily won Tuesday’s five elections for seats in the Florida Legislature in districts that contain parts of Polk County. The results continue a ...

The Florida Department of Governmental Efficiency has hit Polk County and its 17 municipalities, with a demand to provide extensive financial data.

Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland and Polk State College are both in the process of preparing required reports for their current accreditor.

A Florida vacation spiraled out of control for one British family and landed Mark Raymond Gibbon, 62, in jail on a charge of ...

Lakeland had been one of the five cities in Polk County that still adds fluoride to its drinking water, along with Bartow, Auburndale, Haines City and Lake Alfred.

Two people were arrested Wednesday after being accused of leading police on a pursuit in a stolen vehicle.

Floridians who live in manufactured home parks are often older, retired people on fixed incomes who bought property with ...

According to Florida’s Department of Health, Bartow is one of five cities in Polk County that still add fluoride to drinking water, along with Auburndale, Haines City, Lakeland, and Lake Alfred ...