The Polk County Sheriff’s Office and the Lakeland Police Department helped to arrest 28 members of the Mongols motorcycle ...

Polk State College got $10 million for the development of its Haines City-Davenport campus and $6.1 million for renovations ...

A program that helps families repair and strengthen their homes after disaster strikes, has just launched in Polk County.

Property Appraiser Neil Combee has warned that the county will lose tax revenue with no commitment from developers "to reduce ...

A Florida teen is behind bars after threatening to shoot up a McDonald’s for messing up his order, according to the Polk ...

Man with 27 Arrests Back in Custody POLK COUNTY, Fla. - David Sheridan Pickard, a 50-year-old Bradley resident with a lengthy ...

Republicans Scott Franklin, Laurel Lee and Daniel Webster voted for the bill, while Democrat Darren Soto opposed it. The ...

Sheriff Grady Judd highlights the bottleneck in Trump's immigration crackdown due to limited ICE resources and calls for executive action to increase detention space.

It was game on when a wanted Florida man made a social media post challenging the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Grady Judd to find him.

Overall Polk County students improved in two-thirds of the categories, but fell in others. See how your school did.

“I’m grateful and fortunate that I’m able to represent Polk County and the home of the Miss Florida competition,” she said. The Miss Florida preliminaries are 7:30 p.m. June 26-27, ...