From sea to shining sea” may very well have served as the professional motto of James K. Polk, our 11th president. Although ...

This weekend, the Hillsborough County Pet Resource Center and several other municipalities’ shelters from across the Tampa ...

Polk County said the Alligator Alley Trail at Circle B Bar Reserve is back open to the public after being damaged in Hurricane Milton.

Polk State College Trustee Ann Barnhart denounced the Faculty Senate for a virtual meeting at which a botched vote on the ...

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

Polk County’s four members of the U.S. House voted along partisan lines on “One Big Beautiful Act,” the reconciliation spending bill pushed by President Donald Trump. The measure passed by a 215-214 ...

Fifteen percent of those arrested were in the country illegally, the majority of those were gotaways. "This is the highest number of suspects we’ve ever arrested during a single undercover operation,” ...

Partly cloudy. Low temperature around 76F. Dew point will be around 73F with an average humidity of 62%. Winds will be 3 mph from the NW. Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows ...

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. (CBS12) — In a multi-agency operation, 244 people were arrested on human trafficking-related offenses. In a sweeping nine-day undercover operation dubbed "Fool Around and Find ...

The Polk County Sheriff's Office on Friday ... The suspects include people from 12 states besides Florida and 36 people who were in the country illegally, the sheriff's office said.

A 19-year-old woman is accused of racing another vehicle in Polk County at speeds of more than 100 mph. Six people, including multiple teens, were arrested after two people were killed in Lakeland on ...