Condosta, age 74, passed away peacefully on June 8, 2025, in Polk City, Florida, with her devoted husband of 52 years, Lee ...

1-minute read Florida Southern College has appointed Andrew Phillip Payne as the founding dean of its new School of Architecture, the college announced Wednesday. Payne, an experienced administrator ...

MaryLou “Boo” Garland, 91, of Lakeland, Florida, passed away peacefully at home on June 7, 2025.

Nearly 100 people packed into the fellowship hall of New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in northwest Lakeland Tuesday evening to listen to the six candidates vying for three seats on the Polk ...

While many local gangs are loosely organized, the Sex Money Murder gang was an expansive criminal enterprise. A yearlong sting operation led to 41 arrests in Polk County in April 2022, but many ...

86 Polk County military veterans took a one-day trip to Washington to visit the war memorials.

Publix's technology campus is moving closer to reality — and it may have a dramatic impact on Lakeland's economy. Publix plans to hire at least 200 new IT workers and invest more than $121 million ...

1-minute read The Lakeland City Commission on Monday considered a zoning change that will allow Inklings Book Shoppe to move from its current location, downtown, to 737 S. Missouri Ave., across the ...

1-minute read Avelo Airlines flights to and from the Manchester, New Hampshire, airport, near Boston, are being canceled after April, Lakeland Airport Director Kris Hallstrand confirmed Thursday, ...

Jenkins is a 1937 graduate of Washington Park High School — an all-Black school during segregation — and a World War II veteran who stormed the beach at Normandy in the second wave on D-Day. But many ...

Relive the 43rd annual parade via a 5-minute highlights video and see which floats and bands won the eight awards.

One of the largest networks carrying Lakeland's sewage — the almost 80-year-old Western Trunk Line — needs to be replaced. Doing so will be costly, but city staff found a new route that can save $7.9 ...