The Polk Education Association president is urging the Polk County School Board to consider a property tax referendum 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 ...

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

POLK COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia school district will close its buildings on Friday to take preventative measures due to the flu ...

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 ...

Unlike other seasons when Polk at times had three teams from the same district qualify for the playoffs, the county might end up with just two playoff teams from the top five districts in Classes ...

The Lakeland school is among seven in Polk County that have received recent D grades. Crystal Lake is the only one that has reached the stage of having the district file a turnaround plan with the ...

Not all volunteers will face an increase in application fees to nearly $100, as it appeared would be the case when Polk County Public Schools issued an announcement in December. The district ...

A Salem man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, then crashing a car with her body inside, appeared in court Friday.

Polk School District students will not attend classes Friday as officials attempt to curb the spread of illnesses throughout the system.