Big Brothers Big Sisters mentorship program is having a big impact on students in Polk County schools, but it is in urgent ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — More pets are leaving Polk County’s animal shelters alive than ever before. In 2024 a record, 80% of animals in county shelters were released alive, making Polk County much ...

Polk County schools are seeing a significant rise in student absences due to illness. Fourteen schools throughout Polk County have reported sick absence rates greater than 10% at least one day so ...

Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains in the state’s bottom 10. The Florida Department of Education this ...

Polk County Supervisors met yesterday to vote on an interim county administrator. Screenshot via Polk County YouTube stream.

The D.C. plane crash this week highlighted the desperate need for more air traffic controllers across the country. In Polk County, a new control tower operator academy is working towards fixing that ...

POLK COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - Officials in Polk County are looking for a burglar who stole from a building in December. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the burglary happened at the ...

Polk County Supervisor Tom Hockensmith allegedly threatened to fight other supervisors after administrator John Norris was placed on leave Friday, according to a report filed with the Polk County ...

Rebecca Petit heads up ABC Action News coverage in Polk County, joining the team in December ... and CBS4 in El Paso, Texas. In 2019, Rebecca traveled to Haiti and reported on the country's ...

A Polk County judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, the state’s largest business lobby, challenging an ordinance enacted by the town of Eureka regulating how ...