Polk County Public Schools will close all schools and offices Thursday and Friday. All after-school activities will end at 6 ...

Tropical Storm Helene is making its way to Florida and only time will tell what kind of impact it'll have on Polk County.

At the midpoint of the high school football season, eight Polk County teams are in playoff positions and five more teams have ...

Sand bags and monitoring by school district and emergency management continues as tropical storm watch issued for much of ...

Which are the teams and players that have been standouts during the first half of the high school football season in Polk ...

Vote now for The Ledger's 2024 midseason volleyball player of the year. The poll and nominees are listed below.

A tropical storm watch was issued for Polk County Tuesday morning as Potential Tropical Cyclone 9 is expected to strengthen into Hurricane Helene.

Polk County filed a complaint in Circuit Court against Lake Wales and its CRA, seeking to block the planned doubling of the district’s boundaries.

The fatal Lakeland crash was a single-vehicle accident, while four vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction crash near ...

A tropical depression or storm is likely to form over the next couple of days. Take a look at Polk County's forecast.

The biggest regular-season golf tournament in the area is the Crutchfield-Hawkins Golf Tournament in Sebring, and Polk ...