Lakeland FL

TAMPA, Fla. — Plant City is updating its Comprehensive Plan, which is a document that details services needed as a community grows. To do that, city leaders are asking for community input through the city’s Visioning Survey. While change can be scary for some, Plant City resident Wesley...

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla., (WFLA) — Hurricanes Helene and Milton struck Tampa Bay nearly a year ago. Since then, the community has learned a lot, and on Monday, Congresswoman Kathy Castor held a roundtable to discuss some of the key takeaways and future steps. Hurricane survivors from Riviera Bay and Shore Acres showed...

A man from Davenport, 44 years of age, met a tragic end this past Sunday morning after his scooter spun out of control on a busy highway in Osceola County, as reported by the Florida Highway Patrol. According to ClickOrlando, the incident took place around 9:36 A.M. on West Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway, where,...

It was slated to be a luxury resort, built around a golf course on four miles of pristine shoreline of one of Florida's largest lakes. But a group of conservationists raised enough money to protect the land forever. The 2,300 acres known as Eagle Haven Ranch had been in state...

Millions of years ago, marine animals, mammals, and reptiles called Florida home. Learn about five whose fossils have been found in the Bone Valley area of Polk County.

The state will hold two public meetings this week about plans by Florida's largest phosphate mining company to drill deep injection wells at two plants in Polk County. Mosaic could eventually use the wells to pump toxic wastewater from the production of fertilizer 8,000 feet underground. It wants to drill...

LAKELAND – A Polk Avenue Elementary School 5th grade teacher was arrested after Lakeland Police allege she engaged in a scheme involving returns and unpaid merchandise at the Target on Harden Boulevard. According to an arrest affidavit, police responded to the store at 9:36 a.m. on August 31 after...

DADE CITY, Fla. - The suspect arrested in a Dade City shooting that left two dead and one injured took his own life at the Pasco County Detention Center, according to deputies. The Pasco Sheriff's Office said Miguel Hernandez, 35, was found unresponsive from what appeared to be a self-inflicted...

Compassionate health. Anytime. Anywhere. That’s the message public health advocates want to spread today, throughout September (which is Suicide Awareness Month), and throughout the coming year to bring attention to the 988 suicide crisis lifeline and the role it can play in saving someone’s life. “It’s really trying...

LAKELAND, Fla. – A 29-year-old Brandon man has been arrested and charged with the theft of nearly $800 worth of lottery tickets from a convenience store in south Lakeland. David Martinez Santiesteban turned himself in to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) on September 5, following a string of thefts that began...