Curtis Gibson Jr., a two-time former city commissioner, seeks to deny Jack Hilligoss a second term as mayor of Lake Wales.

Areas facing mandatory evacuation include: Deepwoods Lane; Wesley Lane; Piney Gate Road; Piney Overlook Lane; Piney Gate Road ...

The fee of $84 an hour paid to the Polk County Sheriff's Office covers the salary of a deputy, plus benefits, capital and ...

Oregon’s Common School Fund will send $76.8 million to the state’s K-12 public school districts, including $1.1 million to ...

More than 400 college baseball teams, consisting of 15,000 players from 30 different states, meet up in Polk County every spring for RussMatt Baseball.

A final tally from Tuesday's special election overwhelmingly showed Polk County voters are not for county schools taking out ...

Polk County’s track and field athletes delivered several strong performances at Friday’s Swain County High School Invitational held at Montreat College. In a meet featuring more than 20 schools from ...

“We just want folks to make sure they’re aware of the forecast coming up and know what they’re going to do for that severe ...

The measles outbreak is now confirmed in at least 15 states, with new cases in Vermont, Maryland, and Oklahoma.

In any other year, Polk County teachers would be thrilled with the new contract that's about to give them $1,200 to $3,900 raises, based on experience. But Hillsborough teachers are about to get ...

As leaders in the Florida House and Senate, Rep. Josie Tomkow, R-Polk City, and Sen. Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, have so far ...

A former substitute teacher at Kathleen Middle School is in legal trouble for what he allegedly did not do inside a classroom ...