James “Possum” Schaill, a Fort Meade city commissioner and retired detective, died at age 75. Schaill served the Polk County Sheriff’s Office for nearly 31 years and was first elected to the City ...

The fort will no longer be named after Sgt. William Henry Johnson. Instead, a building will bear his name. Weeks after Fort Johnson became Fort Polk once again, a major building at the fort in Vernon ...

In 2023, when the U.S. Department of Defense changed of the name of Fort Polk to remove the stain of honoring a Confederate, slaveholding Episcopal bishop, many in Louisiana railed against the move.