The Florida Department of Transportation is providing a new opportunity for wildlife to cross I-4 in hopes of giving species a chance to expand.

Under the agreement, Polk County Public Schools will pay Fortress Secured LLC up to $6.541 million for predevelopment of the ...

In an escalation of a dispute over whether a local agency is complying enough with an Iowa law requiring cooperation with federal immigration authorities, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed ...

The Polk County School Board voted 6-0 to offer the general counsel position to James Greene, who has the same role with ...

Voters will decide measures including a livability levy in Salem, a $140 million community college bond, and four Salem-Keizer school board seats.

With citrus growers fleeing Florida amid disease, hard freezes and increasingly damaging storms fueled by the changing climate, a Polk County farmer chose to swap out his orange trees for a grove ...

Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in Polk County, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Office of Emergency Management. The McGhee Tyson Airport air traffic ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd held a news conference Friday afternoon to confirm one of his deputies shot and killed a man a short time earlier. Before giving details ...

Currently, Iowa county supervisors can be elected three ways: countywide by district; at-large countywide ... Based on the 2020 census, the new law will impact Polk, Linn, Scott, Johnson and ...

In addition to the Sharpie Shack, Dan Svedarsky has a prairie chicken blind — dubbed the “Taj Ma Chicken” — on a nearby booming ground. Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge a few miles ...

On Thursday, Polk County averaged 428 on the Keetch-Byram Drought Index. That indicates abnormally dry conditions. In late May last year, Polk County Fire Rescue ordered a burn ban when the ...

Lark was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, but a spokesperson for Polk County Schools said the district is starting the process of terminating her employment.