Timothy Coon, the first Black judge in Polk County, Florida, has lived through and witnessed significant periods of racial change in America. He acknowledges the progress made in race relations ...

The four possible paths cut through a swath of eastern Polk County, with various impacts on development and the environment.

Polk County Judge John Flynn was publicly reprimanded for statements made during his 2022 election campaign that suggested a bias towards law enforcement. The Florida Supreme Court upheld a ...

Polk County supervisors have approved $500,000 in emergency funding to help 478 refugees resettle in the Des Moines metro, plugging a gap created by President Donald Trump's January halt of ...

Polk School Board could decide at its Jan. 28 meeting on a proposal for a new $100 million-plus high school in the Poinciana ...

United Way of Central Florida has partnered with the IRS to offer several free tax prep sites across Polk County. Families and individuals who make less than $67,000 are eligible. “These ...

LAKELAND, Fla., Feb. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida Southern College is proud to announce that Polk County's 2024 Teacher of the Year, Cynara Appling, has been awarded a full scholarship to ...

With the long-awaited sobering and mental health crisis center open, Polk County officials are turning their attention to its next-door neighbor ― a refugee and immigrant welcome center.

As a historic winter storm races across North Florida, Polk County should escape freezing temperatures and snowfall through Saturday. But it hasn't been this frigid in January in a decade. Gov. Ron ...

A Florida driver fast asleep beside a store ... The driver also bit the deputy, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a Feb. 8 social media post. It happened around 8:30 a.m. Monday ...

GAINESVILLE — UF is expected to hire Nick Polk to head the Gators’ football front office, the Orlando Sentinel has confirmed. Polk spent 17 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons as director of ...