Empowering Small Minnesota Communities champions communities with fewer than 15,000 people. We’ve created an interactive map to share the stories ... Photo: Andi Sutton Bridgewater Township is home to ...

Andrew Ryan Hendershot engaged in sexually explicit conversations via Snapchat with what he believed to be a 14-yearold female child, but which was an undercover agent with the Polk County Sheriff's ...

New Tonight- The Polk County Sheriff's Office is giving the public a whole new look at the county's justice system. Today the Sheriff announced the new Data Analytics Dashboard. It provides the ...

Polk County Commissioner Bill Braswell is facing criticism for his comments about alleged inefficiencies in the county's Human Resources department, led by Kandis Baker-Buford. Baker-Buford ...

On Tuesday night, thousands of residents in Minnesota’s 1,776 townships gathered for annual Township Day meetings, voting on ...

The levy was set at $165,000: $50,000 in revenue, $20,000 in fire and $95,000 in road and bridge, according to a report from ...

Township elections results in Washington County were uneventful on Tuesday night. In May Township, Town Board Chairman John ...

POLK COUNTY, Minn. — None were injured in a barn fire that took place Monday morning, Feb. 17, in rural Winger, Minnesota. At 8:27 a.m., the Polk County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to 41334 ...

a crucial part of a new water production facility in Southeast Polk County. The facility, expected to be operational by 2028, will initially produce 7.5 million gallons of water daily and includes ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — A second man accused of stealing black swans from a Polk County neighborhood has surrendered to deputies. The Polk County Sheriff's Office said Jordan Montoya, 27, surrendered ...

Nineteen Polk County food vendors fell short of inspection standards Feb. 3-16, according to state reports. But there were no emergency closures of restaurants during the two-week period and none ...