LkldNow provides truly local, independent news covering quality of life issues in our community. Sign up for our weekly ...

The white cowboy hats that Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and his deputies have been sporting recently were funded by a donor ...

For two hours, residents of the Lake Bonny area told Lakeland city commissioners about rancid, sewage-infested floodwaters stagnating inside their homes for weeks, freckling walls with moldand ruining ...

Saturday will be a month that our house has been underwater, and (the water is) finally out. But the lack of anything being ...

Avelo Airlines announced this week that it is adding Nashville as its ninth destination from Lakeland. And the city’s airport director said passenger service, now in its fifth month, is meeting the ...

Forty-four swans were collected on Lake Morton this week during the city of Lakeland’s Swan Roundup, and the veterinarian who ...

Republicans sweep local races; new office holders are Becky Troutman at County Commission and Jennifer Kincart Jonsson in the ...

The owner of LoveBird Almost Famous Chicken has a new eatery in the works: a honky-tonk-themed, quick-serve burger restaurant ...

Swans captured during Tuesday’s annual Swan Roundup. The birds will be given a physical by veterinarian Dr. Price Dickson before being released back into Lake Morton. | Kimberly C. Moore, LkldNow ...

Halina Hannah Chaunvann, center, and her daughters Jasmine, left, and Salena hold some of the teas they craft at their family’s tea house on South Florida Avenue. | Stephanie Claytor, LkldNow ...