Polk County High School student, Banks Barber, recently participated in the North Carolina FFA Tractor Driving Finals where ...

Khloe Joyner scored 29 points for McDowell in a win over Erwin, leading WNC's top performers for Week 13 of the winter sports seaosn.

Nine Polk County football players will play college football next season after signing with a college on Wednesday.

Polk County Middle School’s band program is celebrating unprecedented success, with a record number of students selected for ...

Four years after the process began, the Polk County School Board has taken a decisive step toward the creation of a new high school in the Poinciana area, though its doors will not open before 2028.

Just before the students reach the road, a vehicle coming from the opposite direction zips between them and the school bus, forcing the pair to stop abruptly. That incident, captured by a camera ...

National School Choice Week began Sunday and runs through Saturday. North Carolina in 2023 became the 10th state, and first without a Republican trifecta of state government, to implement ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (WFLA) — In just 11 weeks, Polk County deputies handed out thousands of citations to drivers who were reportedly caught speeding past stopped school buses. According to the ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

A contentious proposal to build a new Poinciana-area on former ranchland along Lake Hatchineha Road in far eastern Polk County appears to be dead. Polk Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — After snowfall hit the Triangle Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, several school districts across central North Carolina are announcing more closures, delays, or remote ...