Cities like Lake Worth Beach and counties across Florida are in a small panic over how to make up revenue if property taxes are eliminated. "Lake Worth Beach is one the cities that is on a pretty thin ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced Wednesday the arrest of Jordan Montoya, 27, in South Carolina, ...

As leaders in the Florida House and Senate, Rep. Josie Tomkow, R-Polk City, and Sen. Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, have so far ...

A budget shortfall and proposed tax overhaul put pressure on Polk County supervisors — themselves highly paid — to act on ...

WPTV is asking questions about the impacts if property taxes ended in Florida. We looked into the numbers that could hit your wallet.

The Polk County Board of Supervisors will be voting on a resolution to settle with County Administrator John Norris on Tuesday. In early January, Norris was placed on paid administrative leave ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing to eliminate property taxes in Florida — a move that could disproportionately harm public schools and give the state more power over ...

New bills filed in the Florida Legislature this session would bolster the tax incentives from the original Live Local Act ...

There’s no denying it: Florida homeowners ... increase your tax break with time, there are other ways you can lower your property tax bill. For example, relocating to a county with lower ...

An audience filled the Polk County Commission chambers for the annual meeting with legislators, just days before the session ...

Polk County ranks 57th out of 67 Florida counties in the 2025 Child Well-Being Index. The county showed improvement in seven categories, including children in poverty and teen drug use.

And in the future, the governor mused on Monday, the state could at some point outright eliminate the ability of those local governments to collect property taxes. This story was originally published ...