Micah Lee Blacksmith surrendered herself at the Polk County Jail on Tuesday. Blacksmith, 34, is facing a charge of failure to ...

The driver involved in a hit-and-run crash that left a 63-year-old man dead days before Christmas turned herself in to the Polk County Jail.

Despite House support, the Iowa Senate will not consider a 5-year pause on gaming licenses. State regulators may consider ...

Stephanie Yocum, president of the Polk Education Association, would like to see Polk County Public Schools steal an idea from ...

The school district said the closures allowed for a deep cleaning after it reported on Thursday that 761 students and 63 ...

Polk County supervisors get raises almost every year. Are they due yet another as two new supervisors keep their full-time ...

Waste haulers in the county would bring garbage and recycling to the proposed facility for sorting and ship it out, likely to ...

Polk County Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said that he does not expect Crystal Lake Elementary to need another year to achieve a C grade.

Polk County is renovating a Des Moines building to create a welcome center and resource hub for immigrants and refugees, ...

Nikki Kallal teaches Family Consumer Science at North Polk Middle School. She was nominated for the Golden Apple for her ...

Two current inmates at the Oklahoma County Detention Center have been charged with murder for the overdose death of another inmate in January.

Court documents are revealing what prompted an investigation into Madison County Treasurer Amanda DeVos that ultimately led to her arrest on Friday. Amanda DeVos ...