A ‘provider-shortage area’: Although new medical facilities are on the way, Polk County had less than half as many doctors ...

Life expectancy in Polk County is more than two years shorter than the statewide average — 76.2 years, compared with 78.6 for ...

Their ability to do most of the renovations in-house was the No. 1 cost-saving factor. Among the amenities that Diaz and ...

Lakeland city commissioners will likely vote May 5 on a resolution to rename Webster Park after the late Civil Rights ...

There will be about 3,000 pots of plants for sale Saturday. They include shade-loving plants in a separate area. There are ...

Alan Kenneth Osban, 70, died April 6, 2025 at Good Shepherd Hospice in Auburndale after a brief illness. Alan was a welder and an avid fisherman. He also was a motorcycle and NASCAR enthusiast. He is ...

Storks bring babies; volunteers bring swans. A special delivery arrived from Chicago at Lakeland Linder International Airport ...

He served in the US Air Force as a crew chief on a B52 Bomber. He worked as an electrician for Fife Electric and Hughes ...

Beverly Stoffel Worthington, a loving wife, mother and grandmother, passed away on April 11, 2025, a couple weeks short of ...

Robert Lee McCormick (Bob, Rob) passed away at Lakeland Regional Hospital on April 9, 2025. Rob was born with his twin ...