Lakeland FL

Soaring food prices and cuts to assistance means more families are turning to local food drives for help getting by. Looking ahead to Thanksgiving, one Bay Area organization is already working on feeding families for the holiday. Genevieve Curtis reports.

Polk County Fire Rescue (PCFR) and Haines City Fire Department (HCFD) displayed exceptional professionalism and heroism in a potentially dangerous situation as the first responders disarmed a naked, combative patient on Monday, Oct. 20. Their quick thinking helped avoid a disastrous situation. Crews arrived on the...

Due to the Moving Florida Forward Initiative, new I-4 congestion relief lanes are coming nine years in advance between I-75 and County Line Road.

As of October 2025, Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center is a state-designated Provisional Level I Trauma Center. This provisional status is a recent development, as the hospital was previously designated as a Level II Trauma Center. This elevation signifies that the hospital is advancing its capabilities to treat...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Lakeland City Commissioner Sara Roberts McCarley has joined the 2025 race for mayor. She was the first candidate to announce her bid following Mayor Bill Mutz’s decision not to seek another term. McCarley, who has represented the city’s Southwest district since 2019, said humility and...

LAKELAND, Fla. – A St. Augustine urgency on the highway led to an overnight stay at the Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) detention center on Sunday night, October 19th. At approximately 10:30 pm. a PCSO deputy on patrol noticed a 2017 Volkswagen Passat driving excessively fast and erratically on Interstate 4 near...

On October 10, at approximately 12:22 p.m., officers from the Plant City Police Department (PCPD) responded to a 911 call reporting a possibly deceased male subject in the creek at Rowena Mays Park located within the 1300 block of W. Risk St. Upon police arrival, officers located an adult male on the bank of the...

A late-night stop at a Florida McDonald’s turned way left — and it wasn’t the fries causing heat this time. Let’s just say a little drive-thru delay led to an altercation. And now? Charges have been filed, and everybody’s pointing fingers.RELATED: Retail Rage! Checkout Line Drama Reportedly Ends In Stabbing Outside...

An 80-year-old woman was killed in a crash Monday after authorities said a driver suffered a medical emergency and began going the wrong way on US-301 in Hillsborough County.

TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) - A convicted felon is back behind bars after Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies say they caught him trying to flee while serving a warrant for his arrest. On Oct. 14, detectives attempted to take Chauncey Welch, 20, into custody in the area of North 16th Street...