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

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

Forty-four swans were collected on Lake Morton this week during the city of Lakeland’s Swan Roundup, and the veterinarian who ...

Saturday will be a month that our house has been underwater, and (the water is) finally out. But the lack of anything being ...

The owner of LoveBird Almost Famous Chicken has a new eatery in the works: a honky-tonk-themed, quick-serve burger restaurant ...

For two hours, residents of the Lake Bonny area told Lakeland city commissioners about rancid, sewage-infested floodwaters stagnating inside their homes for weeks, freckling walls with moldand ruining ...

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Halina Hannah Chaunvann, center, and her daughters Jasmine, left, and Salena hold some of the teas they craft at their family’s tea house on South Florida Avenue. | Stephanie Claytor, LkldNow ...

Swans captured during Tuesday’s annual Swan Roundup. The birds will be given a physical by veterinarian Dr. Price Dickson before being released back into Lake Morton. | Kimberly C. Moore, LkldNow ...