North Carolina communities battle wildfires fueled by Hurricane Helene debris while evacuations, firefighting efforts, and ...

The City of Bartow and Polk County leaders have come up with a plan to build and share a new fire station. “When you have growth, you have traffic, and that creates delays. We want to be at the ...

From this vantage point, Bill Wilson watches as Chinook helicopters, spotter planes and air tankers launch an aerial fight against the Black Cove and Deep Woods fires in Polk County. Looking out ...

FROSTPROOF, Fla. (WFLA) — With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his ...

The Polk County Sports Hall of Fame will expand by five as the Hall of Fame Class of 2025 has been announced and will include three former coaches, one of whom also was an elite athlete in Polk ...

POLK COUNTY, Minn. — A Sartell, Minnesota, woman was sentenced in Polk County Tuesday, April 8, to a stayed prison sentence and four months of work release for methamphetamine crimes.

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — A Polk County man is now changing his plea to guilty in the shooting that killed his father and injured his mother. According to authorities, the shooting happened after ...

Law enforcement officers on the scene at County Road 9 west of Crookston, where a 100-mile cross-border chase ended with an officer-involved shooting Monday morning. POLK COUNTY, Minn.

MULBERRY, Fla — Polk County firefighters were able to rescue a person from a burning mobile home in Mulberry Saturday morning. Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) said firefighters were called to the ...

County officials are asking residents not to call 911 to report smoky conditions More: Statewide ban issued as wildfires burn over 1,000 acres in Polk County: 3 homes lost More: More evacuations ...