Polk County Public Schools signed a contract last year with Verra Mobility Corp. to install cameras on its approximately 500 ...

Polk County has issued 6,886 citations to drivers in the first half of the school year, who were caught on camera failing to stop, when a school bus stop arm is out.

That incident, captured by a camera affixed to the bus, illustrates why Polk County Public Schools signed a contract last year with Verra Mobility Corp. to have cameras installed on all its buses.

Polk County deputies handed out thousands of citations to drivers who were reportedly caught speeding past stopped school buses.

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 ...

Newly elected Polk County Supervisors Mark Holm and Jill Altringer have indicated they intend to work at the jobs they had before the November election as well as their $150,000 a year full-time ...

Authorities were called to a home in Grimes Tuesday morning for an apparent death. The Polk County Sheriff's Office confirmed it was at a home in the 700 block of Dovetail Road for what they ...