Theses are emergency contact numbers for Polk County, its municipalities, plus electric companies and aid services.

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

Residents should make sure they are signed up for their cities' and county's local alert system heading into hurricane season ...

Circle B Bar Reserve’s Alligator Alley trail reopened Wednesday after being closed due to significant damage sustained during ...

Polk County supervisors approved a program that will pay cash to employees who come up with ways to save money within the ...

Wearing purple ribbons on their lapels, dozens of people called out of work or adjusted their plans to attend a Tuesday ...

Two men were arrested Friday in Polk County after deputies discovered six dogs living in deplorable conditions.

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

A man living in the country illegally was arrested and charged with manslaughter for causing the death of his coworker at a construction site in Davenport, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office ...

A charter high school is celebrating the graduation of nearly 200 students who've been thrown curveballs and obstacles in life and have overcome them.

Polk County jailer Khalil Alexander Rembert was arrested for DUI in Dallas, Georgia, and terminated from his position due to ...

On May 30, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said they arrested two men on multiple counts of animal neglect after discovering ...