Polk Countians may only know it from trips up north. The restaurant, famous for its Carolina-style chicken, is opening a ...

The proposed regional system would provide drinking water for Independence and Monmouth and have capability to expand for ...

A stretch of I-26 East in Henderson County near the Polk County line is still closed after a fatal crash. This stretch of ...

COLUMBUS—At the Polk County Board of Commissioners held Tuesday, September 3, commissioners recognized a retiring county ...

Pea Ridge Partnership recently announced the launch of its first-ever tour dedicated to exploring significant historical ...

Two Western NC police captains and a high-ranking officer have had law enforcement training licenses revoked after it was ...

A nearly-100-year-old Western NC community hospital will have its lease, name and management taken over by a Seventh-day ...

Leaders in Polk County are planning to use millions of dollars from the federal government to fight homelessness and the ...

Micah and Diam were on their way to the hospital around 7 a.m. on Saturday so Diam could give birth to their child, however, ...

Born: November 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina... James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate, laid out his foreign policy and domestic aims early, achieved them in one term ...

If you ever tire of the monotonous flatness of peninsular Florida, just drive through Polk County. The landscape there is dotted by massive mountains of phosphate waste, the result of companies mining ...

A nonprofit Seventh-day Adventist health system with long ties to Western North Carolina is taking over the management and name of Polk County's community hospital. St. Luke's Hospital ...