This week's SPCA pets include a couple of affectionate and playful hounds and two cats -- one young and adventurous, the ...

Four of Polk State College's six trustees rated President Angela Garcia Falconetti as achieving expectations in every measure ...

The deputy was praised in February for making more than 200 DUI arrests last year. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said all of his ...

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

Ed Vetter helped establish Polk's first International Baccalaureate program and led it to become one of Florida's ...

Here’s where the northern lights could be visible this weekend, the last time they were seen in Florida and how to find aurora borealis livestreams.

Supervisor of Elections Melony Bell cited "a political atmosphere" in explaning her decision not to hold outreach at Pride in ...

As Gov. DeSantis rushes "Alligator Alcatraz," an immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, into operation, Florida ...

Kaitlin Bennett, a conservative social media personality, says Lakeland police and the LDDA violated her free speech rights at the Downtown Farmers Curb Market.

Free speech or disruptive behavior? After a viral confrontation with a conservative social media personality in May, the LDDA ...

It's been a long journey for Bartow and Lake Wales Walter Clayton Jr. But now, Clayton Jr. was drafted by the Utah Jazz.

For more than 30 years, The Ledger has honored the top scholar-athletes in Polk County and continues that tradition this year ...