Lakeland FL

Local food pantries and non-profits are supplementing their resources and trying to keep up with the growing demand amid the uncertainty surrounding SNAP benefits. It comes as local lawmakers introduce a bill to address "food deserts." Kailey Tracy reports.

Polk County Solid Waste in Bartow, Florida, will not provide curbside residential collection in unincorporated areas on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, due to Veterans Day. Collections scheduled for that day will occur one day later. Tuesday pickups will move to Wednesday, and the schedule for the rest of the week will...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Lakeland residents are getting the opportunity to weigh in on what they want the future of three of its redevelopment districts to look like. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency has launched what it calls ‘Restore the Core.’. From Downtown to Midtown to Dixieland, city...

Good evening, Tampa Bay. We're wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook. It will be another warm day for Saturday with highs in the low to mid 80s. It will be partly sunny with a southwest breeze. Much...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Hillsborough County, FL – Fourteen people were arrested and more than $40,000 in cash seized following a month-long investigation into multiple convenience stores across Tampa, according to the Hillsborough...

One person was taken to the hospital after a school bus crashed in Davenport on Friday.

LAKELAND – When you walk into the door at TA Slammers, the first thing you’ll notice is just that. The large, metal entrance door at the bar’s side will loudly slam shut if you’re a first timer ― or if you just don’t care ― at one of Lakeland’s most well-known “dive bars.” But informality is part of the appeal of TA...

A Dade City teenager died after he crashed and was thrown from a pickup truck as it overturned in Sumter County on Thursday night, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

We are thirty-seven days into the government shutdown with no end in sight. At the start of November, SNAP Benefits were suspended. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the largest federal program to combat hunger in the U.S. by providing food assistance to low-income people and families. There are about...

A teen driver has died after a rollover crash in Sumter County. The 17-year-old Dade City driver was at the wheel of a Chevy Silverado at 9 p.m. Thursday traveling eastbound on Center Grade Road at a high rate of speed, lost control of the vehicle and overturned east of County Road 471 at Richloam, according to an...