The Bartow Police Department is pledging to make changes after officers pulled over a local pastor and a K-9 unit searched his car.

Students in a building located at Bartow Executive Airport are using a $280,000 simulator, typically reserved for the military and few other schools in the nation.

Bartow Tip Leads to Arrest of Accused Rapist, Headed Back to "Derby City" POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A wanted fugitive with serious charges out of Kentucky found his brief stay in Mulberry cut short today, ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $3 million for an emergency operations center and fire facility in Haines City and $1 ...

A Polk County judge in Dallas, Oregon sentenced a 22-year-old Salem man to almost 64 years in prison Thursday for shooting and wounding a deputy sheriff and causing the death of a man while trying ...

A Bartow man died May 24 when he was thrown from the homemade go-kart he was riding as a passenger in Bartow, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported. About 9:20 p.m., the Sheriff’s Office received ...

Michael Strako, 38, died after being thrown from a homemade go-kart struck from behind by a Hyundai Elantra in Bartow, the Polk Sheriff's Office said.