Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will be speaking alongside Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at 10:30 a.m. Investigators ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will join Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and other officials to discuss the arrests of eight people in a multimillion-dollar fraud case.

Polk County Public Schools improved its overall grade to a B for the 2024-25 academic year, up from a C for the previous three years. Fourteen Polk County public schools improved their grades ...

Around 30 people were arrested in connection with a rival gang brawl and shooting during Bike Week in New Smyrna Beach, reports state.

Records from Polk County Public Schools showed a rise of 69.2% in battery toward staff during the 2024-2025 school year.

USA Today Network-Florida named 16 top Old Florida restaurants, and one of Polk County's oldest made the list. Governors and a vice president have eaten there.

A popular online log of Beaufort County mugshots has gone two weeks without updates, interrupting a usually steady flow of publicly accessible arrest data — and for some residents, disrupting a ...

A popular online log of Beaufort County mugshots has gone two weeks without updates, interrupting a usually steady flow of publicly accessible arrest data — and for some residents, disrupting a ...

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 ...