There’s been a bevy of big moments for the leading boys lacrosse scorer in Polk County, Collis Rhodes.

Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

The 77,200-square-foot Watson Clinic Medical Office building will be part of Orlando Health’s Lakeland Highlands Hospital ...

The Polk County Agricultural Center Complex in Bartow took a giant gallop forward on June 3 when the County Commission voted ...

Students across the Bay area can get free meals during their summer break. In Hillsborough County, the program gets students ...

Frederick Blackwelder, 71, spends most of his time in south Lakeland, where he and other family members live, according to Lakeland Police.

After more than a dozen Polk County students were struck and killed by a vehicle last school year, city commissioners voted unanimously to pass an ordinance to install speed cameras in school zones.

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

A tropical wave in the central Atlantic and another in the Caribbean are moving west as we approach the start of hurricane season.

Polk County deputies killed an apparently drug ... The early morning incident in Lakeland began with a 6 a.m. report of a “bizarre” and “shaking” man at a Racetrac gas station on Highway ...

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 ...

LAKELAND, Fla. – A man with an extensive history of methamphetamine-related arrests was fatally shot by Polk County Sheriff’s deputies Monday in Lakeland after a chaotic series of events that Sheriff ...