Sergeant Brandon Polk received the 2025 DA Greg Willis SuperSleuth Award for his exemplary work on a child predator case in Collin County, tracking a fugitive and uncovering a jailhouse plot.

County officials estimate it will cost an additional $4 million to $9 million a year if the central-docketing system is ...

The county will also gain $700,000 for an electrical upgrade at the Polk County Courthouse in Bartow. The budget includes $2 million for the headwaters of the Peace River floodplain protection and ...

The budget includes $10 million for Polk State College's planned Haines City-Davenport campus and $6.1 million for its Lakeland Academic Center.