Polk County's school board is considering asking voters to approve a property tax referendum next year. Superintendent Fred ...

Here is the latest on the fires burning in Polk County, North Carolina, as mandatory evacuations are in effect.

Polk commissioners were one vote shy of a supermajority needed on Tuesday to pass an increased transportation impact fee to ...

Before high school students can graduate from Des Moines Prep, at least 40 hours of career exploration including internships, ...

Bills filed by Polk County’s six state legislators address water management, land annexation, lawsuits against owners of former phosphate land, the creation of an election law center and revised ...

The fire threatened structures on a parcel of private property the first night it began ... Outside national forest land, a fire in Polk County was 100% contained as of March 7, having burned 619 ...

Private landfills are more likely to exempt areas from monitoring than county ... GIS software. Leavitt, working with university students, spent about 300 hours translating it into spatial data ...

County-owned landfills ... rather than using GIS software. Leavitt, working with university students, spent about 300 hours translating it into spatial data, to map the areas monitored at each ...

Private landfills are more likely to exempt areas from monitoring than county-owned ... rather than using GIS software. Leavitt, working with university students, spent about 300 hours translating it ...

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office released a 911 call placed on Monday after a woman was attacked by an alligator. The 911 caller said in addition to biting the woman on the elbow, it also took a life ...