Lakeland Commissioner Sara Roberts McCarley won the open race to become the city’s next Mayor in Tuesday’s election. Roberts ...

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A group of four candidates is vying to be the next mayor of Lakeland. The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 6. Go to ...

Lakeland has a new mayor. There will be a runoff for a Winter Haven Commission seat, and a Fort Meade incumbent is ousted.

Sara Roberts McCarley took the lead and won the election to become Lakeland's next mayor. Four candidates — Kaitlin Kramer, ...

It signals the commission's growing confidence in Sherrouse, a turnabout from a critical review in 2023 that had members ...

Dozens of swans descended from a pair gifted to the central Florida city of Lakeland by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the ...

Rob Hernandez will step up to become the right-hand man of Lakeland City Manager Shawn Sherrouse. Hernandez was promoted to the position of deputy city manager, previously held by Emily Colón, at ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) —Seven areas in Polk County could someday be home to a stop on the greater Orlando-based, publicly-funded commuter rail system. Some city officials are open to the idea.

LAKELAND, Fla. — A Polk County judge denied bond Saturday to a Lakeland, Florida city commissioner facing a second-degree murder charge for the deadly shooting of a suspected shoplifter. Commissioner ...