Kelli Stargel Joins Crowded Field for U.S. House District 15 GOP Primary

An unusually warm winter brings good news for Lakeland Electric customers: The utility’s fuel rate — which has been at its highest point ever since September — is poised to come down substantially in March. But April will likely see a slight increase in the base rate that utility customers pay.

It had already been a long day when I got a call from Kimberly Moore, LkldNow’s hard-working reporter, at 6:32 p.m. on Monday. Had I heard that nine people had been shot? she asked. “No, where?” I responded, expecting her to tell me about some other city or state.

Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Fred Heid donned a mask and snorkel recently, although he stayed on dry land. The superintendent kicked off Celebrate Literacy Week on Jan. 23 by reading “Inky the Octopus” by Erin Guendelsberger, with illustrations by David Leonard. And what’s a book reading without some sort of costume?

Lakeland police have recovered a blue Nissan sedan that they believe was used in a shooting Monday afternoon that left at least 11 men wounded in the Parker Street neighborhood, Police Chief Sam Taylor revealed in a press briefing this morning. “We had an officer drive by and noticed it...

More than 900 students took part in the 79th annual Polk County Youth Fair, with Lake Gibson Senior High’s Emmalee Robertson coming away with the Grand Champion trophy for commercial market steer. Bartow Senior High’s Chasey McCrimmon’s American influence market steer won Grand Champion and Union Academy’s Layne Walker...