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Lakeland Linder Regional Airport has a hot offer on the hook and is moving quickly to make space for an undisclosed potential new tenant.

The Lakeland Downtown Development Authority is in City Hall, but it is not of city hall, a distinction a move out of its free digs in the center of municipal government should make clearer.

Thirteen Lakeland Electric trucks set course for Tallahassee Friday afternoon after Hurricane Hermine knocked out power for 74,000 people in the state capital.

With a rise in traffic fatalities throughout the nation, this Labor Day weekend is predicted to be the deadliest in eight years.

A 32-year-old Lakeland man is in the Polk County Jail, facing charges that he sexually battered a young teen four times, impregnating her.

Heavy rain and gusty winds from the aftermath of Hurricane Hermine’s brush with Central Florida contributed to a spate of power outages overnight and early this morning throughout metropolitan Lakeland.

Monday is Labor Day, a holiday that will be observed with the closing of all federal, state, county and local government offices.

Rain from an unpredictable tropical storm helped to bring the monthly rainfall total for August above the long-term monthly average for the first time this summer.

Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty in a case involving a Winter Haven man accused of killing two Polk State College students in his home in 2012.

William P. McCraney, a recipient of the nation’s second highest military award — the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery under enemy fire, died Tuesday. He was 84.