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

Rapid growth in Florida's Heartland weighs heavily on aging infrastructure. Paving new roads harms already imperiled ...

Lake Wales city commissioners signaled support for annexing 1,202 acres in anticipation of the Stoneridge project. A binding ...

Is Polk County getting its money’s worth for public transit? There was a recent article in The Ledger concerning Citrus Connection, also known as the Lakeland Area Mass Transit District ...

Edwin Arthur Vetter, longtime Polk ... county's first International Baccalaureate School, passed away at 79. Vetter's IB school at Bartow High School consistently ranked among the top in Florida ...

More than 250 people were arrested — including a former NFL linebacker — earlier this month in a multiagency undercover operation to combat human trafficking, the Polk County Sheriff’s ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies in Polk County said hundreds have been arrested after a large undercover operation. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said operation “Fool Around and Find Out ...

A former NFL star and a Red Cross Disaster Relief executive were among 244 suspects arrested by a Florida sheriff's ... officials said. The Polk County Sheriff's Office on Friday announced the ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that 255 were arrested in a nine-day, multi-agency undercover investigation called “Fool Around and Find Out ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff's ... and broken families." Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday followed through with his plan to veto a bill that would have repealed FL ...