Johnson and the Groene’s were able to lift the 100-pound bomb onto their fisherman boats and drive it to the dock, where they immediately called the Polk County Sheriff’s office.

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

Both Marion and Polk counties are planning on cutting positions that have been vacant. And Marion County intends to add nearly a dozen jobs.

Nineteen Polk County public schools will have new principals for the 2025-2026 school year. Five principal reassignments are a result of retirements.

Florida Sheriff Grady Judd ready to support the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, but cites lack of detention capacity and calls for federal action.

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, a unit of FDOT, resumed the project last May, launching an alternative corridor study for the 28-mile eastern segment known as Central Polk Parkway East.

Polk County deputies killed an apparently drug-addled man who swam through an alligator-infested lake, then charged the officers with garden shears, Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd will discuss the arrest of a Lakeland man accused of setting fire to a home while his roommates were inside.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a news conference Friday morning to discuss the arrests of 225 people in an undercover investigation named “Fool Around and Find Out.” ...

Polk County investigators believe arson may have played a role in an early morning house fire that spread to a nearby vehicle.

Massachusetts was the site of various battles during the Revolutionary War, many of which will celebrate their 250th anniversary this year.