The Center for Biological Diversity is legally challenging the EPA's decision to allow phosphogypsum in the construction ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed nearly $600 million from the state budget, impacting some Polk County projects. Haines City's emergency operations center, fire facility, and municipal annex ...

Both Marion and Polk counties are planning on cutting positions that have been vacant. And Marion County intends to add nearly a dozen jobs.

The Central Florida Expressway Authority bought land protected under an easement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Osceola County for a toll road project last May.

Homeward has been collecting data on homelessness in Polk County since 2022, with findings indicating more than 3,000 individuals experienced homelessness in the county in 2024.

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise revealed two revised corridors for the Central Polk Parkway East moving farther north of Lake Wales, but still bisecting family farms.

For the second time in 2025, the Polk County Board of Supervisors has approved a severance agreement with a county medical examiner.

Polk County and the city of Bartow are teaming up to address the growing demand for emergency services caused by rapid population growth.

Of particular concern to the county is truck traffic at an Amazon facility on Deen Still Road. Trucks frequently line up out onto the road, blocking traffic.

As of the latest March 24 evening update, maps indicated that one fire in Polk County had hopped the Green River. Firefighters from across the nation are responding.

More evacuations ordered in Polk County March 23 as firefighters strategize around "nightmare" conditions to battle over 4,700 acres of wildfire.

Here is the latest on the fires burning in Polk County, North Carolina, as mandatory evacuations are in effect.