Eleven municipalities in Polk County hold elections in April. If you're thinking about running, here's what you need to know.

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise is conducting an alternative corridor evaluation for the Central Polk ... map, runs along the west side of U.S. 17-92 north beyond Ronald Reagan Parkway to the ...

Polk County has issued 6,886 citations to drivers in the first half of the school year, who were caught on camera failing to stop, when a school bus stop arm is out.

state says Polk County ranks in the second of four tiers for immunization levels established by the Florida Department of Health. Eighteen counties are labeled in red on a map on the agency’s ...

This has been the coldest start to January in a decade for Polk County, the NWS says. Here's what to expect as a historic ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

Another storm is moving across the United States, but Florida residents won't see the Arctic blast that brought record snowfall and frigid temperatures to the Sunshine State last week. The storm that ...

The district tournaments begin this week with boys basketball championship games slates for Friday. New power rankings will ...

That is 300 more calls than the year before. Haines City only has two fire stations, so Polk County Fire Rescue steps in to cover the north section of the city. “We’re unable to cover those calls.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — A man from West Palm Beach is accused of traveling to Central Florida with the intention ... his Honda Civic at a park in Polk City. The sheriff's office said both ...

“It is ironic that we’ve been known as the ‘City of Pure Water’ and then we’re in this predicament.” Perhaps nowhere in Florida is more at the crux of water issues than Polk County in ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A 22-year-old man from West Palm Beach was arrested on Saturday after deputies said he groomed a teen girl online before traveling to Polk County to "engage in sexual ...