It's Election Day 2024, and The Ledger caught up with a couple of voters outside the Coleman Bush Building in Lakeland.

LAKELAND — Larry Anderson and Michelle Bell arrived to vote Tuesday morning on a pair of single-gear bicycles — red for him ...

Election Day 2024 is here. Final voting for the general election will take place Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Polk County ...

Here's our Week 12 Florida high school football Super 25 rankings. Lakeland returns to the No. 1 spot and Chaminade-Madonna moves up to No. 2.

Demand for hurricane supplies drives sales boost at Publix. Lakeland-based grocer reports stock price increase.

The blue skies over Polk County on Monday are expected to continue as a cold front is forecast to move into the area by Wednesday with only a chance of showers. By midweek the high temperatures ...

Rick Rousos, a longtime reporter with The Ledger who retired in 2016, died Friday at age 73. Rousos began work at The Ledger in 1989, relocating from Michigan. He covered a variety of beats, beginning ...

Newly released data from Realtor.com for August shows that potential buyers and sellers in Polk County saw higher home sale prices than the previous month's median of $290,000.

Bob Doyel of Winter Haven ran unsuccessfully for office three times in Polk County after retiring as a judge in 2010.

Friday night football is back after Hurricane Milton stormed through the county last week, and it's getting down to the wire for many teams. On Thursday night, Haines City knocked off rival Ridge ...

The Judicial Nominating Commission for the 10 th Judicial Circuit is seeking applicants to fill an opening for the Polk ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd spoke at a media event in Bartow arranged by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office, and he has appeared in ...