The City Commission approved a $268,000 plan to treat Crystal Lake with a product that could help sunlight reach the bottom of the 12- to 15-foot-deep lake for the first time in a very long time.

A Polk County man was sentenced to life in prison for a double murder in 2020, the State Attorney’s Office announced.

The city of Lakeland is honoring the legacy of local civil rights activist and businesswoman, Madalynne Brooks.

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave honor him.

A Polk County Sheriff’s Office deputy was injured Friday evening after being knocked down by a loose longhorn bull running through a busy Lakeland intersection. According to Carrie Horstman, Public ...