Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lake Wales Police Chief Chris Velasquez will not be fired after all. The city manager announced at Tuesday's City Commission ...

It appears that Lake Wales is not in danger of losing its city manager after all. James Slaton, the city manager since 2020, has applied for the same position with at least three other cities in ...

Lake Wales, Polk County’s sixth-largest city with a population of about 17,000, has a “weak mayor” system of government, meaning the mayor is a city commissioner with limited extra powers, such as ...

Nearly two years after her suspension from the Lake Wales City Commission, Kris Fitzgerald has been returned to office. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an order Wednesday reinstating Fitzgerald, whom ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Lake Wales Police Chief Chris Velasquez will keep his job as the city’s top cop. At Tuesday’s city commission meeting, City Manager James Slaton announced he rescinded the ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (WFLA) — The Lake Wales City Commission approved a signed agreement Tuesday evening that will return ownership of the historic Dixie Walesbilt Hotel to the city. The hotel, which ...

Negotiations to renovate the historic Walesbilt Hotel in Lake Wales are likely to continue at least until February. The city has hired an analytics firm to assess the project's financial probabilities ...