Barry Friedman

As Lakeland recovers from Hurricane Milton, lots of announcements are being made about services related to the storm or facilities that are opening or still closed. Here is a roundup of recent news:

Lakeland city commissioners today watched dramatic footage of police rescues during Hurricane Milton, heard about the storm trashing a new roof at

A key part of the effort to reduce noise from large jets flying into Lakeland Linder International Airport is about to go into effect.

Planes will spray chemicals this weekend between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. starting tonight.

With the 2024 general election one week away, nearly one-third of eligible Polk County voters have already cast their ballots.

Dale Leckie: 2024 Geoscience in the Media Award winner Best-selling author of a number of geology books, and one of 2024's AAPG Geoscience

When Juli Hennings, this year's AAPG's Geosciences in Media Award winner, thinks about all the factors that brought her to this moment in her professional life, there are two that stand out. The first was in Texas at a meeting at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences.

If you haven't voted yet, here is what you need to know about voting and what you'll see on the ballot.

Republican challenger Melony Bell took an early lead over incumbent Polk Supervisor of Elections Lori Edward by capturing 53.1% of the vote in early returns on Tuesday. So far, 83 out of Polk's 172 precincts have been counted, as have early-voting ballots have been counted; vote-by-mail results are expected to come in last.

What is it like to fly from Lakeland Linder International Airport on Avelo Airlines? Now that Avelo flies between Lakeland and eight other nonstop