The state Department of Natural Resources warns that 19 counties in northern Wisconsin are under extreme fire danger May 11 and urges people to exercise caution. The Red Flag Warning is in effect from ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Edith Thomas has been working in Polk County Public Schools for 31 years. She started out as the school nurse at R. Bruce Wagner Elementary and then decided to become a paraeducator.

Republican Hilary Holley and Democrat Edwin Perez face off March 24 in a special election for Florida House District 51, seeking to succeed Josie Tomkow.

More than 30 brush fires burned across Polk County on Feb. 15, according to Polk County Fire Rescue. The largest was in the Westgate River Ranch area in the far eastern portion of Polk County near ...

CROOKSTON – Brad Grunhovd of Euclid, Minnesota, has announced his candidacy for the Polk County Board of Commissioners. Grunhovd will be on the ballot for the special election on Feb. 10 for the open ...

HOMELAND, Fla. — Imagine camping through near-freezing nights without cars, electricity or modern shelters. That was the appeal for about 1,500 adults and an estimated 200 to 300 children who gathered ...

Polk County's clerk of courts claims she was passed over for a promotion in favor of a younger, less qualified candidate. She alleges she was later suspended in retaliation for filing an age ...

Polk’s freshman season puts LCU, Loreauville on the map Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next 20 years Maps don’t show Greenland’s true size. Here’s how big it ...

Editor's note: This story is from Dec. 8. You can find the latest forecast on the storm in this story. Meteorologists expect heavy and accumulating snow in western Wisconsin beginning Tuesday, Dec. 9.

POLK COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - Polk County residents may return home Monday after previously being asked to evacuate an area threatened by a dam breach. The owners of the damaged dam at Carter Lake said ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas — Polk County emergency officials Saturday night urged residents near the Carter Lake Dam in Camden to evacuate as a precaution after reports of a leak in the privately owned dam.

Voter turnout in Polk and Dallas counties was higher than the Iowa statewide average of 16.6%. A Des Moines Public Schools bond issue, which passed with nearly 74% approval, helped drive voter ...