FRANK MORASCO OF THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE WAS NAMED AS INTERIM INSTEAD. THE LAWSUIT, FILED MAY 10TH, NAMES POLK COUNTY AND THREE OF ITS FIVE SUPERVISORS. THEY ARE CHAIRMAN MATT MCCOY AND JILL ...

Officials with Polk County Schools declined to comment on Polk Virtual School, but did provide options for families, which include: Returning to the home-zoned school Applying to another Polk ...

Polk County Fire Rescue will open its 45th station, Moore Road Fire Station 25, in Lakeland on May 23. The $5.97 million station will house an engine company and a tanker truck, serving the area ...

“That shows that our room, at Southeast Polk, what we’re doing transfers to the college level.” Cody Goodwin covers wrestling and high school sports for the Des Moines Register. Follow him ...

Edwin Arthur Vetter, longtime Polk County educator and founder of the county's first International Baccalaureate School, passed away at 79. Vetter's IB school at Bartow High School consistently ...