Shannon Archer, a Polk County prosecutor from 2010 to 2022, alleged sex discrimination and retaliation under former County Attorney John Sarcone.

Polk County’s lead homelessness planning organization, Homeward, identified more people struggling with homelessness. Those ...

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — In a move to improve safety on local lakes, the Polk County Board of County Commissioners approved an ordinance repealing and restating the Polk County Waterway Protection ...

"I was working at a medical facility, and in my scrubs about one mile away from where I was, I got pulled over,” said Briana Silveira, a former Polk County resident who says she had no idea she ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Winter Haven Police Department and Polk County Fire Rescue were searching Thursday afternoon for a juvenile in Lake Roy who was swimming ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — One man is dead and another is hospitalized after a motorcycle crash in Polk County. At around 9:40 a.m. on Saturday, officers responded to a crash on Green Pond Road ...

(WFLA) — Two masked men who were caught pulling on car door handles early Tuesday morning have been connected to nearly two dozen previously reported burglaries, the Polk County Sheriff’s ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Municipalities across the county are holding elections on Tuesday. Residents will cast ballots in a number of races including city council and commission seats to mayoral ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — A 24-year-old Mulberry man with no driver’s license has been arrested following Tuesday’s SR-60 crash that left two people dead. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s ...

A man acting erratically in Lakeland, Florida, was fatally shot by Polk County deputies after charging at them with garden shears and attempting to seize a weapon from a patrol car, the sheriff said.

After clearing the bar at 5-8 in the high jump at the Iowa high school state track and field meet, North Polk sophomore Reese Wagner waited in angst as ADM senior London Warmuth stepped up for her ...

Polk County deputies first responded to a RaceTrac gas station just before 6 a.m. after staff called and said there was a man who was acting "bizarre." They told deputies he was shaking and kept ...