Lakeland FL

Haines City Parks & Recreation, in partnership with Miracle Toyota, will host the annual Christmas Parade in December 2025. The parade will begin at 6:00 p.m. and proceed to Lake Eva Park. The park will feature holiday lights and a 31-foot Christmas tree.

Located in Bartow, Florida, Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant does the most business during hurricanes. Connie Wu recalls her parents’ restaurant was still taking orders during Hurricane Irma in 2017, even as the lights went out and the army rolled up to their door. “They had to order food,” Wu says. But Christmas was...

The University of South Florida’s Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) program offers free weekly physical education classes to K–5 homeschool students in the Tampa Bay area. Now in its third year, the program provides homeschooled children with a structured environment to learn and play sports. It also gives...

ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. – An 86-year-old man lost his life Monday evening while attempting to cross a busy stretch of U.S. 301 in Pasco County. The fatal collision occurred shortly after 6 p.m. just north of Pretty Pond Road. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the pedestrian stepped into the path of a northbound...

Polk County has landed a Chick-fil-A supply and distribution center, a $150 million project expected to create more than 180 jobs. Dubbed Chick-fil-A Supply, the facility is in Central Florida Integrated Logistics Park in Winter Haven. The 244,000-square-foot distribution facility will be No. 12 for the popular fast...

LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA)— One person is dead after a pedestrian vs. vehicle crash on I-4 in Lakeland, the Florida Highway Patrol announced. FHP responded to a crash in the eastbound lanes of I-4 near milemarker 27 around 2:38 a.m. A 64-year-old Lakeland woman was driving a KIA Forte in the eastbound lanes of I-4 when […]

One of the suspects has amassed a social media following for provocative street evangelism, with videos showing confrontations with Muslim communities across the country.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Four boaters were rescued Tuesday after the U.S. Coast Guard said crews found the boaters’ capsized vessel about 26 miles offshore. The four boaters from Mulberry left from the Seminole Street Boat Ramp around 9:30 a.m. Monday on a 25-foot green-and-white catamaran called “Money Well Wasted”...

TAMPA, Fla. – A home on River Bay Drive in Tampa became the center of a major law enforcement operation Friday, ending with the arrest of a 20-year-old man and the seizure of a high-powered firearm, thousands in cash, and a stockpile of narcotics. The bust concluded a targeted...

Talk about a memorable coincidence. Two baby boys with strikingly similar names — Myles and Miles — were born just minutes apart and only feet away from each other at the same Florida hospital. HCA Florida Brandon Hospital in Brandon shared the unusual moment, calling it a “heartwarming coincidence” that happened on...