The president of Lockhart Chemical Company will stand trial in connection with an oil spill in the Flint River in June 2022.

Turtles are also frequent visitors to a small floating habitat in the Lancaster Street Canal, on the opposite side of the ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. - Agrim scene unfolded on Poe Road this past Sunday, June 1, 2025, as the Polk County Sheriff's Office ...

Officials in Denison are monitoring the Boyer River after a substance believed to be oil made its way into the city’s storm ...

Three people were rescued off Florida’s coast Sunday night after their plane crashed in the water near Indian River County.

Two men have been arrested in Polk County for animal neglect after deputies say they discovered six dogs that were living in ...

A Haitian man, who deputies say was in the country illegally, is accused of failing to clean up an oil spill in Eagle Lake.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - An undocumented immigrant from Haiti was arrested on Friday by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office after ...

( BY: AMY DALRYMPLE. North Dakota Monitor) – A pipeline failure in North Dakota caused an estimated 73,000 barrels, or nearly ...

Monday marks 10 years since the Refugio oil spill off Santa Barbara County, considered one of the worst environmental disasters in California history, and now that same pipeline that burst could ...

Aksh Ladegaonkar , a sophomore at International Baccalaureate at Bartow High School, earned second place in the Dr. Nelson ...

His project, exploring how to develop a material for absorbing crude oil from industrial spills, took third place ... award in the senior division at the Polk Regional Science and Engineering ...