Bonnet Springs Park has been named USA Today’s Best City Park of 2025. This is a national recognition that happened due to ...

Polk County's average drought index reading surpassed 500 on Tuesday, indicating an elevated chance of wildfires.

Officials enacted the ban on Tuesday (April 15) after the county's drought scale, the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), ...

One person is dead and two more are seriously injured after a crash in western Wisconsin Tuesday morning. The collision ...

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, at 10:40 a.m., the emergency call center took a call for a two-vehicle crash ...

Unincorporated areas of Polk County, along with the City of Winter Haven, are now under a burn ban as dry conditions create an increased risk of brush fires.

A man faces a list of charges after Polk County deputies say he violently threatened his partner, then set his camper on fire ...

Former Florida Sen. Lauren Book came to Lakeland on Tuesday for a segment of her nonprofit’s monthlong Walk in My Shoes event ...

A Florida woman is behind bars after she saw her estranged husband walking down the street with his new girlfriend and ran ...

The following is a snapshot of the inspections conducted by the Polk County Health Department. Twice annually, licensed ...

The Tennessee Army National Guard provided two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from Knoxville’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter ...

As the drought worsens, more Florida counties have issued burn bans.Here's the dry weather outlook and where the fires are burning.