Korean barbeque and Chinese hot pot restaurants are fairly new to Lakeland — but the tradition of gathering communally and ...

For the last eight years, Lakeland resident Natalie Aviles has participated in Walk to End Alzheimer’s Polk County. Each year ...

Dr. Daniel Haight, Lakeland Regional Health’s vice president of community health, has been named a Fellow by the Infectious ...

More than a third of Lakeland households received letters last week notifying them that the city does not know whether their ...

Republicans sweep local races; new office holders are Becky Troutman at County Commission and Jennifer Kincart Jonsson in the ...

The white cowboy hats that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and his deputies have been sporting recently were funded by a donor ...

Jeannie Weaver Lopez, the headstrong force who created the successful downtown craft cocktail lounge Revival and Lake Morton restaurant The Peach House, died Thursday morning after suffering severe ...

Even before Polk County’s 172 precincts open for Election Day voting at 7 a.m. Tuesday, more than 51% of eligible voters had ...

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It was largely smooth sailing at polling sites around Lakeland on Tuesday. A detour stymied some voters near Lake Bonny, but ...

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