After eight years as Lakeland’s mayor, Bill Mutz is packing up his office — and stepping into unfamiliar territory.

A new Workforce Readiness Center in Mulberry expands teen career training as Florida invests in career and technical ...

Lakeland commissioners voted Monday to pull the plug on a deal with Tampa-based Onicx Group that would have put apartments, shopping and a three-story garage on the Oak Street parking lot.

Kate Wallace was sworn in to the Polk County School Board on Nov. 19 after a DeSantis appointment. Wallace will represent District 3 through 2026.

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Moved to Florida from Pennsylvania at the age of five. I have been married for 26years to my wife Niki, a professor of nursing at Polk State University. We have three grown children. My oldest son, ...

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Polk County School Board Member Rick Nolte, 69, has died. Nolte was in his first term representing District 3, which includes 23 schools in Alturas, Bartow, Lakeland, Mulberry and Winter Haven. He had ...

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Big changes are coming to the Kress Building in downtown Lakeland, on the inside. The majestic, Renaissance Revival-style building has been vacant since August 2022, when the Explorations V Children’s ...

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Free breakfasts, lunches and snacks are available to Polk County kids all summer long — no ID, no cost, and at most locations, no application is necessary. The statewide Summer BreakSpot program is ...