There's an extremely rare plant that, in all of Florida, only grows in Polk County, but it's being threatened by a proposed ...

In the Atlantic basin, the National Hurricane Center is watching three tropical waves, one in the Caribbean. Here's Polk ...

Residents and county officials are at odds over plans to accommodate growth by widening Thompson Nursery Road and adding bike ...

A Lake Worth man was killed Monday morning when troopers say he crashed into the back of a truck towing a trailer in Polk County. A charter high school is celebrating the graduation of nearly 200 ...

Florida Public Service Commission Gary Clark Nonpartisan September 15, 2017 Florida Public Service Commission Andrew Giles Fay Nonpartisan 2018 Florida Public Service Commission Art Graham Nonpartisan ...

Rapid growth in Florida's Heartland weighs heavily on aging infrastructure. Paving new roads harms already imperiled ...

POLK COUNTY, Florida (WUFT) — Their shoes slipping through yellow sand, Nancy Bissett and Steve Riefler followed an unpublished graduate thesis like a treasure map. They snuck through a jumble of ...

Polk County, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot and killed a man who charged deputies with garden shears and tried to grab a gun from a patrol vehicle, all after he was attacked by an ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, on Monday, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack. Polk County Sheriff’s ...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) — A man armed with garden shears was fatally shot by deputies in Polk County, Florida, on Monday, minutes after surviving an apparent alligator attack. Polk County Sheriff ...